26 Nov 2003

Chris Patten: Legitimising LTTE's Self -Rule
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "... one cannot but be concerned over the implications of the [...] visit of Chris Patten, the European Union's External Relations Commissioner, to Killinochi in the LTTE [The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]-controlled area to meet Prabakaran on November 26 [2003] during his visit to Sri Lanka for talks with the Sri Lankan leaders. Would it not amount to legitimising the LTTE's de facto set-up? Would it not amount to undermining the efforts of the Sri Lankan Government to reach an agreement with the LTTE which would safeguard the unity and the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka?" - b.raman]
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers9/paper845.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde[use"@"]vsnl.com)
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