Amid international concern over the future of the peace process in Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Wednesday pledged her commitment to the Norwegian-brokered ceasefire between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

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"The president has specifically asked me to state that the ceasefire agreement stands and will stand and there is no question about it," Lakshman Kadirgamar, Kumaratunga's international affairs adviser told reporters.

"The president has no intention of resuming or provoking the resumption of hostilities," he told reporters.

The announcement came just hours before Kumaratunga declared a state of emergency in the country.

Earlier on Tuesday, Kumaratunga had fired three key ministers from the government of her political rival Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and prorogued Parliament till November 19.