Norway broke its long drawn silence over the LTTE's post CFA killing spree yesterday.
The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Colombo said Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister, Vidar Helgessen had conveyed his country’s growing concern over the LTTE’s unceasing breach of the ceasefire agreement and had made it clear that Norway condemned the political killings carried out by the Tigers, to the LTTE’s political wing head Thamilselvan when they met in Geneva on Monday.
The Embassy said: "Deputy Minister Helgessen communicated to the LTTE delegation Norway’s growing concern regarding continuing breaches of the ceasefire agreement. Helgessen emphasised the negative implications of ceasefire violations for the peace process as a whole and underlined that such violations also make the work of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission difficult."
"Helgessen stated that Norway condemned the political killings taking place in Sri Lanka and appealed to the delegation that the LTTE does everything possible to stop such killings," said the embassy.
Norway is coming under increasing pressure from the victims of LTTE violence to prevent the Tigers from unleashing terror by taking the advantage over the the Norwegian-brokered CFA, which the outfit has violated on over 2,000 occasions since February, 2002.
