COLOMBO, Feb 22: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers are not prepared to renegotiate their ceasefire agreement with the government, local press reports quoted the rebels as saying, on Sunday.

The comment came in response to statements by the Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) that the 22 February 2002 ceasefire agreement signed by the incumbent prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the LTTE was seriously flawed and needed renegotiating.

"We have no intention of changing or altering the existing agreement," S Pulidevan, the head of the LTTE's peace secretariat, was quoted as saying. The Marxists have formed an alliance with the main opposition party led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga with the objective of toppling the Wickremesinghe government.

The JVP, a bitter critic of the peace deal, maintains that the ceasefire agreement exists only on paper as the Tigers have been violating it at will.