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Weather Jaffna Madurai Chennai Salem |
Britain refused to meet the Sri Lankan Tamil political parties
[EelamNation, February 27/2001] The British High Commissioner in Colombo, Ms. Linda Dufield, said in a letter to the ten political parties on Monday that their request for a meeting with the British Prime Minister Hon. Tony Blair is not granted. The Tamil political parties requested the High Commissioner early this month to make arrangements to see the Prime Minister of Great Britain to urge him not to proscribe the Liberation Tigers as a terrorist organization. According to sources in the Tamil political parties, they wanted the appointment with Prime Minister Blair to also brief him of the tragedy of the endless ethnic crisis. The High Commissioner stated in her letter to the Tamil political parties that the British Prime Minister's schedule does not permit him to meet the leaders of the Tamil political parties. Prime Minister Hon. Tony Blair is in North America. She mentioned that Britain has received vast numbers of letters from Tamils around the world and that Britain will take note of all their views to make decisions as to whether the Liberation Tigers is a terrorist organization or a liberation movement. The Tamil parties had also met the Indian High Commissioner Mr. Gopal Krishna Gandhi last month and had requested to meet the Indian Prime Minister Hon. Atal Bihari Vajpayee; however, the Indian High Commissioner in a letter had refused permission for the Tamil political parties to meet the Prime Minister.
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