Lanka wants new EU leader to act against LTTE terrorism Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 66.94.237.39 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 85.18.136.86 From: "gwen831" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Yahoo-Profile: gwen831 Sender: osint@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list osint@yahoogroups.com; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list osint@yahoogroups.com List-Id: <osint.yahoogroups.com> Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:15:18 -0000 Subject: [osint] Reply-To: osint@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
http://www.asianewsnet.net/level3_template1.php?l3sec=4&news_id=50534 Lanka wants new EU leader to act against LTTE terrorism By Shamindra Ferdinando The Island Publication Date : 2006-01-01 Sri Lanka expects the new EU leader Austria to proscribe the LTTE for brazenly violating the Oslo-arranged Cease-Fire Agreement regardless of the EU warning following the assassination of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar last August. Austria takes over the EU leadership today (Jan 1) from the UK. "We believe Austria would take a tougher line against the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)," a senior government official said referring to India's recent call to proscribe the LTTE in EU member states. India's call was made in the backdrop of stepped up terrorist attacks and denying a large group of Tamil speaking people in the northern and eastern province their right to exercise their franchise at the Nov 17 presidential polls. Another official expressed the belief that the EU would act before the forthcoming visit here by EU External Affairs Commissioner Ms Benita Ferrero Waldner, a former Austrian Foreign Minister. Waldner is expected early this year. The LTTE was continuing attacks even after the EU Ambassador based in Colombo Julian Wilson and British High Commissioner Stephen Evans representing the EU presidency, Japanese Ambassador Akio Suda and the Deputy Norwegian Ambassador demanded an immediate end to attacks during a meeting at Kilinochchi last Saturday (Dec 24). The LTTE blew up an army truck at Puloly (west) three days later killing 12 personnel. EU is co-chair to the Tokyo Donor Conference. An effective EU ban would automatically cripple LTTE operations in over a dozen member states including France and Germany that bring millions of Euros to the Tigers' war chest annually. "We want a genuine crackdown," a senior security official said pointing out the shortcomings in a UK-style ban that would allow Tigers to operate freely threatening death and destruction unless the government resumed talks on their terms. Government sources said that the EU decision announced in late September not to receive LTTE delegations in member states obviously did not have the desired effect. This announcement was made in the backdrop of Kadirgamar's assassination. With India taking part in the consultations with co-chairs Colombo firmly believes that there could be a significant change in the decision making process. India had participated at the last consultations, the sources said. The government is of the view that the ongoing efforts to resume peace talks should not in anyway hinder the decision making process. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
