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Indian Intervention in Sri Lanka and International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

Shah Alam
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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , December 1991 , pp. 346 - 359
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1991

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1. For the text of the Agreement, its Annex and the letters exchanged between the Indian Prime Minister and the Sri Lankan President, and also for the post-Agreement statements by the two leaders, see Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement, published by the External Publicity Division, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi (1987)Google Scholar.

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