COLOMBO, March 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Leaders of Sri Lanka's political parties will probe the deal signed by Tamil Tiger rebels and the government last month in Geneva, party sources said Sunday.

    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has summoned an all-party forum for Monday to discuss the outcome of last month's talks in Geneva between his negotiators and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.

    Nishantha Sri Warnasuriya, a spokesman for the nationalist all Buddhist monk party, the JHU (the Heritage Party), said here Sunday that Monday's forum would be used by them to quiz extensively the government's reported deal with the LTTE rebels.

    In Geneva the Tigers vowed to eschew violence against the security forces in the Northern and Eastern provinces while the government assured that no armed groups or persons other than the members of the government troops will carry arms or conduct armed operations.

    However, the joint statement released after the talks had angered Rajapakse's electoral allies such as the JHU and the leftist JVP, or the People's Liberation Front.

    Both parties have claimed that the deal with the Tigers was not in accordance with the respective electoral deals they had entered with the president in the run-up to last year's presidential election.

    The two hardline parties wanted the truce agreement amended in Geneva but the outcome suggests that the Norwegian-backed truce agreement was never amended at the Geneva talks.

    On the other hand the main opposition United National Party (UNP) said they had already written to the president demanding to know what clauses had been amended in Geneva if the government was claiming that truce pact had been amended.

    The UNP sources said the party would question Rajapakse on the issue at Monday's all-party forum.

    The JVP sources said that the party leader Somawansa Amerasinghe would use the forum to air the party's concerns on the Geneva pact.

    The presidential secretariat sources said that all political parties are to be apprised by the president on the matters to be taken up between the rebels and the government at the next round of talks to be held in Geneva in late April.

    The truce talks in Geneva last month came after a three-year deadlock between the government and the LTTE.

    Norway has been facilitating direct talks in a bid to help Sri Lanka end its long standing separatist armed conflict that had claimed over 64,000 lives since the mid 1980s. Enditem