The World - News from May 31, 1988
India’s defense minister, K.C. Pant, conferred with Sri Lankan Cabinet ministers on plans to withdraw the more than 50,000 Indian troops now assigned to the troubled nation. Pant told the ministers that withdrawal should depend on the state of the Tamil guerrilla separatist campaign, Indian sources said. In turn, the Sri Lankans told Pant that Indian troops should take stronger steps to crush the Tamil insurrection in the northeast area of the Indian Ocean island. Indian troops have been deployed in Sri Lanka under a July, 1987, peace plan aimed at ending the conflict.
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