India says no military solution to Sri Lanka conflict
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India has indicated to Sri Lanka that it wants to see a political settlement to the island's decades old Tamil separatist conflict.
In closed door talks with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse and top officials, India's National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said New Delhi did not believe a military solution was possible.
The government formally withdrew from a Norwegian-arranged truce in January and stepped up attacks against the rebel Tamil Tigers.
Last year the military drove the rebels out of the multi-ethnic eastern province and is currently trying to wrest control over the defacto mini-state of the rebels, Jaffna, in the north.
The Indian delegation which included the foreign and defence secretaries also met with the leader of the Tamil National Alliance, seen as the political wing of the Tigers.
