EU reimposes ban on LTTE: SL

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Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Ajith P. Perera said today that European Union (EU) had reimposed the ban on the LTTE due to the positive diplomatic intervention of the Government.

Mr. Perera said the EU court had lifted the ban on the LTTE during the previous government due to its ineffective diplomatic process.

He said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had written to the EU to reconsider the ban on the LTTE as the then leader of the opposition.

Mr. Perera said Prime Minister Wickremesinghe and the Foreign Affairs Ministry intervened with the EU to reimpose the ban on the LTTE and as a result, the EU had reimposed the ban and added that it was a great diplomatic victory of the country.

The Judgement of the General Court of the European Union last year had annulled measures taken by the Council of the European Union to designate the LTTE as a terrorist organisation and the freezing of their funds.

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