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Ambassador denies LTTE was met at EU
The European Union’s Ambassador Designate to Sri Lanka Julian Wilson yesterday categorically denied there was a meeting between LTTE members and members of the EU in Brussels on Monday.

“”There was no meeting with the LTTE.and I have clarified that with my headquarters to be 100 per cent clear,” Mr. Wilson told The Sunday Times.
A pro-LTTE website had claimed that EU state officials had met with LTTE officials in Brussels.

The delegation, according to the website, included legal expert V. Rudrakumar who represented the LTTE at the Peace talks. Mr. Wilson said there was an informal meeting between EU officials and members of civil society but they did not include people from the LTTE nor any of the protestors who took part in a Tamil resurgence protest in Brussels the same day.

He said the meeting was not under taken with the official status of the EU, which imposed a travel ban on the LTTE last month.
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