European Envoys Fail to Win Sri Lankan Ceasefire

The top envoys of two of the United Nations Security Council permanent members are the latest diplomats to apply pressure on Sri Lanka, amid fears of a humanitarian crisis as a 25-year civil war on the island appears near its end. The British and French foreign ministers met Wednesday with Sri Lanka’s leaders and visited displacement camps in the north. The diplomats failed to secure an immediate truce and only partly succeeded in gaining a government pledge to give international humanitarian workers improved access to refugee Tamils. Full Story :VOANews…….