Many crucial issues such as legalizing the LTTE’s armed cadres by forming a paramilitary force for thenortheast region, power sharing arrangement for Muslims in the east, land rights, etc., will have to betackled before a final solution and, as Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said, "it is an extremely hazardouspath and the process is a very long one". However Wickremesinghe’s new initiative has taken firm roots,and Constitutional Affairs Minister G. L. Peiris, who led the Sri Lanka government delegation in the talks,while expressing satisfaction over the positive outcome, has asserted that the two sides would be firmlyentrenched on the peace path and would reach the ‘point of no-return to war’ by the middle of 2003.