LTTE welcomes appointment of British Special Envoy

by admin
Feb 17, 2009
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) welcomed the appointment of Des Browne as Special Envoy to Sri Lanka by the British Prime Minister on Thursday, February 12.
 
In a letter addressed to Des Browne, LTTE's Head of International Diplomatic Relations S. Pathmanathan said the British government had a moral responsibility to intervene to stop the genocide being committed by the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) on Tamil civilians in the island of Sri Lanka.

The LTTE remained committed to a peaceful solution to the conflict and honoured the February 2002 peace pact, the letter addressed to Browne further added.

Britain named a special envoy to Sri Lanka to help bring about a political solution to the island’s long-running conflict and to ease hardships to Tamil civilians trapped in the Vanni war zone.

Pathmanathan, a senior leader of the LTTE is working abroad with required mandate from the LTTE leadership to represent the movement in any future peace initiatives and to function as the primary point of contact for engaging with the international community.

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