UK will not make further responses regarding Miliband issue - BHC
March 1, 2010 01:50 pm
Acting British High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Mark Gooding explained the rationale behind Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s participation at the Global Tamil Forum when he met the Lankan Foreign Minister last week, High Commission spokesman told Ada Derana. The spokesman added that the British Government will not be making any further responses regarding the matter.
Officials in
Foreign
Minister Rohitha Bogollagama who called a special briefing said that the Global
Tamil Forum is an umbrella organization of the now vanquished terrorist group
LTTE. He added that any Foreign Secretary’s physical presence at such a forum
would give legitimacy to an organization with a separatist agenda for
Ada Derana