Sri Lankan FM meets Indian PM

(26 Aug 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Sri lanka Foreign Minister, Anura Bandarnaike and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seated
2. Singh
3. Bandarnaike
4. Indian officials at meeting
5. Singh and Bandarnaike
6. Sri Lankan officials at meeting
7. Cameras
STORYLINE:
Sri Lanka''s new foreign minister on Friday asked leaders in neighbouring India to help keep his country''s increasingly shaky peace process with the Tamil Tiger rebels from total collapse after his predecessor''s assassination.
Foreign Minister Anura Bandarnaike met with India''s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss how New Delhi could help with dialogue between Sri Lanka''s government and the Tigers.
Earlier on Friday, he held talks with Indian External affairs minister Natwar Singh.
Bandarnaike''s India visit comes ahead of crucial peace talks between his government and the Tigers to review their cease-fire, which has become increasingly fragile after the August 12 assassination of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, Bandarnaike''s predecessor.
Many of Sri Lanka''s minority ethnic Tamils, whose ancestors were brought to the island from nearby India as indentured labourers by British colonial planters in the 18th century, have family ties with Tamils living in southern India.
India has previously been involved in efforts to end the civil war in Sri Lanka.
In 1987, New Delhi sent peacekeeping troops to Sri Lanka, but withdrew them three years later after more than 1,100 Indian soldiers died in clashes with the Tigers.
India labelled the Tigers terrorists after a Tamil suicide bomber killed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
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