Agreement between the GoN and Liberation Tigers of Terai Eelam (LTTE)

• Country/entity

  Nepal
  
• Region

  Asia and Pacific
  
• Agreement name

  Agreement between the GoN and Liberation Tigers of Terai Eelam (LTTE)
• Date

  21 Feb 2009
• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed
• Interim arrangement

  Yes
• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/local conflict ( Nepalese Insurgency (1996 - 2006) )
• Stage

  Ceasefire/related
• Conflict nature

  Government/territory
• Peace process

  Nepal related-local processes
• Parties

  On behalf of LTTE: Ramlochan Thakur ‘Swamiji’, Coordinator
  On behalf of GoN Talks Team: Janardhan Sharma ‘Prabhakar’, Coordinator
• Third parties

  -
• Description

  An agreement in which principles for negotiation between the Government of Nepal and the LTTE are agreed and the LTTE agree to suspend violent activities in order to participate in the negotiations.

• Agreement document

  NP_100221_GoN and Liberation Tigers of Terai Eelam.pdf | Download PDF

Local agreement properties

• Process type

  Formal structured process
  
• Rationale

  While there was no one primary institution, or procedure driving these agreements, it was formal. UN Nepal and Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction archives points out that all the governments between 2007- 2010, formed dialogue teams led/ coordinated by the Minister of Peace and Reconstruction, despite the Ministers changing along as per the shifts in the government coalition. The Dialogue or talk teams formed also formally called different armed groups for talks, and talks were organised in different rounds.
• Is there a documented link to a national peace process?

  Yes
• Link to national process: articulated rationale

  Despite groups like these linked to violence and criminality, their demands were framed around inclusion, in particular greater autonomy for the Terai region. Thus, it sought to strengthen and reaffirm the CPA’s commitment for state restructuring and inclusion.
• Name of Locale

  Tarai
• Nature Of Locale

  Region
• GPS Lat/Long (DD)

  27.039338, 84.874213
• Participant type

  Central state actor
  Local armed group
  
• Mediator, facilitator or similar

  No mention of mediator or similar

Local issues

Agreement between the GoN and Liberation Tigers of Terai Eelam (LTTE)

On February 21, 2010, the first round of talks between the Talks Team of the GoN and the Talks Team of the Liberation Tigers of Terai Eelam (LTTE) was held in a cordial atmosphere in Birgunj.

With the belief that the institutional development and strengthening of Nepal’s progressive transformation and of the federal democratic republic can take place only through a new people-centric constitution and embracing the principles of sovereignty, integrity, national interest and national unity, an agreement was reached on the following points.

1. The GoN shall provide security to the members of the Talks Team of the Liberation Tigers of Terai Eelam (LTTE) during the period of dialogue.

2. The LTTE shall suspend its violent activities and shall not engage in any unlawful activities.

The GoN shall treat the group leaders and activists as political actors.

3. The LTTE shall make available to the GoN a list of its activists being held in jail and of those against whom cases have been filed, and the GoN shall gradually release them after investigations.

4. Political assemblies, rallies, workshops, seminars and nation- building programmes may be conducted freely and peacefully in coordination with the District Administration Office concerned.

5. Initiative shall be taken for bringing the other agitating political groups to the negotiation table for establishment of sustainable peace in the country.

On behalf of LTTE:

Ramlochan Thakur ‘Swamiji’, Coordinator

On behalf of GoN Talks Team:

Janardhan Sharma ‘Prabhakar’, Coordinator