புலிகளை பயங்கரவாதிகள் பட்டியலில் இருந்து நீக்க முடியாது என்று அமெரிக்க அரசு அறிவித்துள்ளது.
US not to remove LTTE from terror list
Washington: The United States has said it would not remove the terrorist tag from the Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers rebel group, even though it had observed a ceasefire for more than two years and conducted informal peace talks with the government.
"We will not remove our designation of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) as a terrorist organisation until it has firmly and decidedly given up terrorism and such policies as the recruitment of children as soldiers," Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca said.
The Tigers have led a bloody three-decade campaign for independence, but opened peace talks in September 2002 after entering into a Norwegian-brokered truce with security forces seven months earlier. The talks have been deadlocked since April last year.
Rocca, who is in charge of South Asian affairs, told a congressional hearing that she did not expect peace talks to resume before August even though the Norwegian government played a "heroic role" in mediations between the government and the LTTE. "We are hopeful that they will start sometime soon, because there definitely is the will on the part of the government to move forward on this," she added.
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has agreed to discuss a rebel plan for interim self-rule only if the negotiations focus on reaching a final settlement to the three-decade conflict, a condition rejected by the Tigers.
Rocca said although the government was willing to negotiate, "they don't want to create a de facto separate state going into the negotiations."
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