Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has accused the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of intransigence after the recent breakdown in talks between the two sides. The rebels on Thursday aborted a two-day meeting in Oslo with Colombo representatives arranged by Norway to discuss the safety of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) overseeing a fragile truce. “Unfortunately it has been the intransigence of the LTTE which has resulted in this impasse,” Samaraweera told reporters in Oslo after a meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store. Full Story