Sri Lanka, July 14 -- Six political parties representing the Tamil-speaking people have decided to work together to continue discussions through a common platform and have jointly requested the Government to hold the Provincial Council elections without further delay.

Representatives of these six minority political parties made this statement while expressing their views to the media following a discussion held at the Renuka Hotel in Colombo yesterday (13).

The six Tamil-speaking minority political party representatives that attended the meeting yesterday are from the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC), Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA), Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress...