{"id":127828,"date":"2022-08-14T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T22:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127828"},"modified":"2022-08-14T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T22:33:22","slug":"sri-lanka-lifts-ban-on-six-tamil-diaspora-organisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/08\/14\/sri-lanka-lifts-ban-on-six-tamil-diaspora-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka lifts ban on six Tamil diaspora organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Government of Sri Lanka has lifted the ban imposed on six international Tamil organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is through an&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.documents.gov.lk\/files\/egz\/2022\/8\/2291-02_E.pdf\">Amendment&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>to the List of Designated Persons under Regulation 4(7) of the United Nations Regulations No. 1 of 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sri Lanka lifts ban on six Tamil diaspora organisations (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYUCL1PlHPw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Defence Ministry, a total of 577 persons and 18 entities were Listed under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, 316 persons and 06 entities have been De Listed from the Designated List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entities De Listed from the Designated List:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>01.&nbsp;<strong>Australian Tamil Congress (ATC)&nbsp;<\/strong><br>02.&nbsp;<strong>Global Tamil Forum (GTF)&nbsp;<\/strong><br>03.&nbsp;<strong>World Tamil Coordinating Committee (WTCC)&nbsp;<\/strong><br>04.&nbsp;<strong>Tamil Eelam Peoples Assembly (TEPA)&nbsp;<\/strong><br>05.&nbsp;<strong>Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC)&nbsp;<\/strong><br>06.&nbsp;<strong>British Tamil Forum (BTF)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The List of Designated Persons published in the Gazette Extraordinary No. 1992\/25 of November 9, 2016, is hereby amended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/586942896\/Summary-English#from_embed\">Summary English<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/537385388\/Adaderana-Online#from_embed\">Adaderana Online<\/a>&nbsp;on Scribd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka has lifted the ban imposed on six international Tamil organisations. This is through an&nbsp;Amendment&nbsp;to the List of Designated Persons under Regulation 4(7) of the United Nations Regulations No. 1 of 2012. According to the Defence Ministry, a total of 577 persons and 18 entities were Listed under United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}