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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11145856" data-attributes="member: 92282">A four-member Tamil National Alliance (TNA)  delegation led by parliamentary group leader R. Sampanthan will leave  for Washington on October 25 following an invitation from the US  government.                      The visit comes at a time when the talks between the government and the TNA remain stalled.                        TNA parliamentarian  Suresh Premachandran, a member of the TNA delegation to Washington, said  they would meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Assistant  Secretary of State Robert O Blake, among others and brief them on the  status of the TNA’s talks with the government.                        He pointed out that  this was the first time that the US government had invited a Tamil  political delegation from Sri Lanka for talks.                         The TNA delegation,  which also includes Mavai Senathirajah and M. Sumanthiran, will visit  Canada and Britain before they return to Sri Lanka.                        Commenting on the  dialogue with the government, Mr. Premachandran said the talks were to  be resumed on October 3 but were postponed because the ministers were  busy doing election work.                        The MP said the TNA had asked the government to  set aside three days for talks but the party had not received a response  yet. “We are disappointed that the talks are getting delayed,” Mr.  Premachandran said.                        However, Sajin Vass  Gunawardena, a member of the government delegation, said the talks were  delayed because several of the government and TNA members had gone out  of Sri Lanka – a claim disputed by Mr. Premachandran.                                                Mr. Gunawardena said a  new date would be fixed for talks as soon as the TNA delegation returned  from the US.                         Meanwhile, President Mahinda Rajapaksa earlier  this week said the government would go ahead with the proposed  Parliamentary Select Committee to find a solution to the national  question. ST</blockquote>

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