A Sri Lankan party allied with President Chandrika Kumaratunga for upcoming elections rejected a cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels in a newspaper interview on Sunday, but Kumaratunga said she was committed to the truce.
A rejection of the two-year-old cease-fire by the Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) would be a blow to Kumaratunga's left-leaning Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), which signed an alliance with the JVP last month.
They will run on a common platform in an April 2 general election that will focus on how to turn the cease-fire into a political solution to end a civil war that has claimed 64,000 lives.
"We, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna have always said that we completely reject this memorandum of understanding. It is clearly threatening our national security," JVP media secretary Wimal Weerawansa was quoted as saying in the Sinhalese-language Lanka.
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