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ICELAND TENDERS APOLOGY FOR VISITING TAMILSELVAN

By Walter Jayawardhana

The Government of Iceland has tendered an unqualified written apology to the Government of Sri Lanka for the unauthorized meeting of Mr. Bjarni Vestmann, Minister Counsellor of the Foreign Ministry of Iceland, with representatives of the LTTE, a statement issued by Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry said..

“The apology follows Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, who is currently on an official visit to Washington DC, taking up the matter with his counterpart Mrs. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland on Wednesday morning. The Minister strongly protested the action of Mr. Vestmann, and requested his immediate recall”, the statement further said.

According to the statement, Foreign Minister Gísladóttir emphatically stated that the Government of Iceland had not authorised Mr. Vestmann to make any contact with the LTTE, which he has done much to their disappointment.

The Iceland Foreign Minister noted the close relations between Sri Lanka and Iceland and hoped for the continuation of this relationship.

The Icelandic diplomat has entered the LTTE controlled territory with the help of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission and the incident was revealed when the LTTE published the photos of the meeting of the diplomat with LTTE’s Thamilselvan

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