IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 672 
Urging the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil 
Eelam to engage positively in the forthcoming peace talks and prevent 
a return to armed conflict in Sri Lanka. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 8, 2006 
Mr. PALLONE submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations 
RESOLUTION 
Urging the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation 
Tigers of Tamil Eelam to engage positively in the forth-
coming peace talks and prevent a return to armed con-
flict in Sri Lanka. 
Whereas Sri Lanka is Asia’s oldest democracy and remains 
a close friend of the United States; 
Whereas more than 64,000 civilians have died and 350,000 
persons have been internally displaced in Sri Lanka as a 
result of a 20-year armed conflict between the Govern-
ment of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil 
Eelam, a group designated by the Department of State 
as a foreign terrorist organization;
•HRES 672 IH 
Whereas in 2002 the Government of Sri Lanka and the Lib-
eration Tigers of Tamil Eelam signed a cease-fire agree-
ment; 
Whereas peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka 
and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been 
stalled since April 2003; 
Whereas on August 12, 2005, the Sri Lankan Foreign Min-
ister, Lakhsman Kadirgamar, was assassinated in a ter-
rorist act that has been attributed to the Liberation Ti-
gers of Tamil Eelam; 
Whereas December 2005 was the bloodiest month in Sri 
Lanka since the cease-fire agreement came into effect in 
2002 due to a series of Claymore mine and suicide at-
tacks against Security Forces of the Government of Sri 
Lanka by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; 
Whereas the United States remains deeply concerned about 
the continued violations of the cease-fire agreement in Sri 
Lanka, as marked by a recent series of violent incidents 
involving Claymore mine and suicide attacks; 
Whereas Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation 
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, recently issued an ultimatum to 
the Government of Sri Lanka to come up with a political 
settlement within the next year or face an ‘‘intensified 
struggle for self-determination’’; 
Whereas the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has a history 
of engaging in a campaign of terror and violence; 
Whereas if hostilities resume in Sri Lanka, the use of uncon-
ventional weapons and suicide missions and other ter-
rorist tactics by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 
could cause even greater devastation to the country and 
have implications on regional security;
•HRES 672 IH 
Whereas to strengthen the implementation of the cease-fire 
agreement, the Government of Sri Lanka and the Libera-
tion Tigers of Tamil Eelam have agreed to commence 
peace talks beginning in February 2006 in Geneva, Swit-
zerland; and 
Whereas, despite the agreement to continue peace talks, a re-
turn to armed conflict in Sri Lanka is still a very real 
threat: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives urges, 
in the strongest possible terms, the Government of Sri 
Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to— 
(1) engage positively in the forthcoming peace 
talks and to prevent a return to armed conflict in 
Sri Lanka; 
(2) renegotiate a cease-fire agreement and im-
plement the agreement in a productive and success-
ful manner; and 
(3) focus on rebuilding a peaceful, secure, and 
prosperous future for Sri Lanka. 
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