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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11352431" data-attributes="member: 92282">Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said he had conveyed to Sri  Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa that the use of force in dealing with  fishermen is unacceptable and pushed for a joint working group to  resolve the issue           "We explained this to President Rajapaksa and he agreed that the use of  force to deal with Indian fishermen is totally unacceptable, that it is  a human problem and it must be dealt in a humane manner," Manmohan  Singh said while referring to bilateral talks he had with Rajapaksa in  the Maldives on the sidelines of the SAARC summit on Thursday.        The Prime Minister said he also discussed various options like growing  involvement of fishermen of two countries in discussing their mutual  problems. "We agreed that the working group should accelerate its  work."        The two leaders also discussed the speedy resettlement of Tamils displaced by armed conflict with the LTTE.        "Principally, my concern was with regard to resettlement of internally  displaced Tamil refugees, and the treatment of fishermen. President  Rajapaksa gave me assurances that Sri Lanka will and has been moving  forward," he said.       "How far that satisfies the common public opinion, there is now a  structured dialogue between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil  National Alliance and also there is a Parliamentary Select Committee  which has been appointed to go into this question of what can be done to  find a permanent political and acceptable solution to the Tamil  problem."        Rajapaksa conveyed to Manmohan Singh that there are still about 7,000  IDPs awaiting resettlement and steps would be taken to ensure their  rehabilitation. DM</blockquote>

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