Brown backs controversial event

25 February 2010 01:06 am

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown added to the controversy created by his Foreign Secretary David Miliband by turning up for an event in London yesterday, an event which the Sri Lankan government had described as being in support of the LTTE.

According to the BBC Brown met delegates of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) conference in London where the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband addressed the gathering.

Delivering the inaugural address of the GTF conference held at the British parliamentary complex on Wednesday the foreign secretary called upon the Sri Lankan government to make constitutional changes aimed at power sharing.

The Sri Lankan government protested against Foreign Secretary Miliband 's decision to address the Tamil diaspora gathering describing it as a pro LTTE organisation that poses a ‘direct threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka'.