COLOMBO, Dec. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse here Wednesday held talks with the main political party of the minority Tamils on his plans to revive the peace negotiations with the Tamil Tigers, said the president's office.

    The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MPs during their talks with the president stressed the need to stop what they called the harassment of civilians by the army in Jaffna.

    They drew the attention of Rajapakse to the incidents which led to 15 civilians being injured in clashes with the Army, TNA legislator Nadaraja Raviraj said.

    Rajapakse assured the TNA legislators that he would have a fresh approach toward the stalled peace negotiations with a view to provide fresh solutions to the long drawn out separatist armed conflict.

    Just hours after Rajapakse's talks with the legislators of the TNA yet another soldier was killed in the northern Jaffna peninsula by suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.

    This was the second such killing of a soldier in the last 24 hours.

    Three grenades were thrown at an army vehicle at 6:10 p.m. (1210 GMT) local time in Kachai in Jaffna, said defense officials, adding that five more including an officer were injured in addition to the dead soldier.

    This was the fourth separate attack on the security forces during Wednesday, officials added. Enditem