Last-ditch attempt to end Lankan crisis

President Chandrika Kumara-tunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are expected to hold their final round of unity talks Wednesday amid foreign pressure on them to sink their differences, official sources said.

A similar meeting Friday ended without a breakthrough in attempts to improve their uneasy cohabitation arrangement, which came to a head on November 4 when Kumaratunga sacked three ministers and suspended parliament for two weeks.

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"If by Wednesday they fail to work out a compromise, we are looking at a snap election," a source close to both sides said.