{"id":40076,"date":"2015-03-30T04:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=40076"},"modified":"2015-03-30T04:35:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T08:35:43","slug":"european-council-keeps-ltte-on-terror-list-despite-last-years-de-listing-by-european-general-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=40076","title":{"rendered":"European Council  Keeps LTTE on Terror List  Despite Last Years de-listing by European General Court."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The LTTE, taken off the European Union\u2019s list of terrorist groups in Oct. 2014 by an order of the European General Court, is now back on the Terror List according to EU documents.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nThe European Council appealed in late December last year against the decision of the General Court but the process is expected to continue for some time until the appeal is heard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the LTTE continued to fight for de-listing in the courts and by lobbying in some European capitals on an understanding that that in the absence of fresh regulations gazetted by the European Council, the ban would no longer apply.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic sources said that Sri Lanka has called for the LTTE to continues to be listed by the EU as a terror group until the appeal process is concluded and its listing, along with other terror groups, is seen as a small victory for Colombo\u2019s diplomacy. This includes the intense dialogue Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has had in several key capitals including Delhi, Brussels, London and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>It was also noted that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, as Leader of the Opposition, called on the EU to keep the LTTE on the Terror List immediately after the European General Court ruled in its favour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is important to bear in mind is that the highest decision making body of the of the 28 EU member states, the European Council, at the highest political level, has unanimously taken a clear decision to list the LTTE as a terror group last Thursday,&#8221; these sources said.<\/p>\n<p>This decision follows the results of the review the Council has carried out in respect of persons, groups and entities to which three Articles of the relevant Common Position regarding terror groups apply.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton40076\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D40076&amp;text=European%20Council%20%20Keeps%20LTTE%20on%20Terror%20List%20%20Despite%20Last%20Years%20de-listing%20by%20European%20General%20Court.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LTTE, taken off the European Union\u2019s list of terrorist groups in Oct. 2014 by an order of the European General Court, is now back on the Terror List according to EU documents. The European Council appealed in late December last year against the decision of the General Court but the process is expected to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=40076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;European Council  Keeps LTTE on Terror List  Despite Last Years de-listing by European General Court.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40077,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40076\/revisions\/40077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}