COLOMBO: The Euro­pean Council has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organisation by another six months in a decision, taken on July 30, under the European Union’s regulation on “specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism.”

The decision was taken after the Sri Lankan Embassy in Brussels had presented evidence from the past years up to the present that the LTTE threat continued to exist.

“We have managed to convince the EU’s 28-member states of the continuing threat of the LTTE,” Rodney Perera, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in Brussels was quoted in the Colombo-based the Sunday Times as saying, adding that it was an ‘arduous task.’

Published in Dawn, August 6th, 2018