Colombo: Sri Lanka on July 10 announced it had prepared "concrete proposals" to set up a provisional administrative structure in the island's embattled North East in the hope of reviving peace talks.

The government's chief peace negotiator G L Peiris said proposals for the administrative structure would be sent to the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the next few days.

The LTTE had demanded greater political, administrative and financial power in exchange for ending their boycott of peace talks since April.

Peiris, who is also the government's Constitutional Affairs Minister, declined to discuss details of the government's latest offer, but said it was "not a carbon copy" of two previous offers rejected by the Tigers.

"What we are sending is not a final document, but something that outlines our thoughts on a provisional administrative structure," Peiris told reporters a day after the weekly Cabinet meeting.

"After taking inputs from the LTTE we will decide on a final document."

The peace process hit a major snag when the LTTE announced on April 21 that they were suspending the Norwegian-brokered talks to protest Colombo's alleged failure to deliver on promises made at six rounds of talks since September.

PTI