Mangala meets with Global Tamil Forum

UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera is said to have met with the London-based Global Tamil Forum (GTF) in the UK, the Government Information Department reported.

The Spokesman of the GTF Suren Surendiran had confirmed that the MP had met with the group while talking to the Canada-based Tamil newspaper “Oru”.

Speaking to the Oru newspaper about the suspicion in which the meeting was viewed, Surendiran stated, 

“Understandably, it was viewed with suspicion. Firstly, this was a meeting that wasn’t a formal GTF meeting but was private in nature.

Unless we engage with people within and outside our community, we will not achieve our desired aspirations. In many conflicts around the world including ours many engagements are and were made of which some are/were disclosed and others not. Some are recognised and others were not.”