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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12655212" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Suresh_Premachandran.jpg/120px-Suresh_Premachandran.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The stance of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) vis-a-vis the  negotiations on the ethnic issue will remain unchanged despite any  mediation by anybody, TNA Parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran said.  Premachandran told Ceylon Today that the TNA had not shifted from its  original position that there must be an understanding between the TNA  and the UPFA Government first before the TNA can participate in the All  Party Select Committee (APSC).  Meanwhile, Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem has written to President  Mahinda Rajapaksa that he is prepared to act in the role of the mediator  to restart the stalled talks between the TNA and the Government.  When Ceylon Today asked Premachandran whether his party was prepared  to accept Hakeem as the proposed mediator, the Parliamentarian  unequivocally said that whoever the mediator be, his party was not  prepared to budge from its original stand to the effect that there  should be some understanding first between the TNA and the Government  before talks could begin at the APSC level.  Until and unless the government changed its stance the TNA too would not budge from its position, he stressed.  Meanwhile, Hakeem has reportedly met with TNA Leader Rajavarothian Sampanthan. CT</blockquote>

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