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Displaced Tamil civilians will be resettled by Jan 10

Sri Lanka today said all displaced Tamil civilians, currently lodged in relief camps, will be resettled by January 10 next year and efforts for a political solution to the Tamil question will be initiated immediately after the presidential elections there.<br/><br/>A Sri Lankan delegation consisting of Senior Presidential Adviser Basil Rajapaksa, President's Secretary<br/><br/>Lalit Weeratunga and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa met Minister of External Affairs S M Krishna in New Delhi to discuss issues related to the resettlement of Tamil civilians.<br/><br/>Mr. Basil Rajapaksa told reporters that the Tamil civilians living in the camps in northern Sri Lanka have all the democratic rights.<br/><br/>The Sri Lankan leader also said that Sri Lanka will stand with India in all the interests of Indian government and its security concerns. At the same time he maintained that the Indian government did not raise the issue of any of its security concerns in the meeting. On problems of Indian fishermen, Basil said the issue needed to be looked into more from a humanitarian point of view rather than a legal one.<br/>

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