The Swedish delegation led by diplomat, Anders Oljelund, will meet the
leaders of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
at Kilinochchi on July 21,
today, to persuade the outfit
leadership to drop their demand
for the withdrawal of European
Union (EU) members from the
Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission.
As reported earlier, the outfit-opposed
Sweden, Finland and Denmark working as peace monitors after the 25-member
EU proscribed LTTE as a terrorist
group in May, 2006.
Meanwhile, the Government spokesperson, Keheliya Rambukwella, stated,
"The EU is trying to
persuade the LTTE not to insist
on their demand that the EU
member states should quit
the monitoring team… Our stand
is clear that the EU member
states should remain in the
monitoring team."
The LTTE is entrenched in Canada and uses a Toronto-based "front organization"
called the World Tamil Movement
(WTM) to raise money for arms,
says a summary of an ongoing
Royal Canadian Mountain Police
(RCMP) investigation. The
RCMP 58-page document released
on July 19 referred the WTM
as "the Canadian arm"
of the LTTE. |
