Path still open for dialogue - Foreign Minister

KOTTE: Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday said that the Government still believed that the LTTE would give up its path of violence and enter the process of dialogue without placing any conditions.

“It is now time for the LTTE to focus on the substantial core issues of devolution of power rather than chase an unattainable chimera of a mono-ethnic separate state which does not belong in today’s civilized world”, the Minister asserted.