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Lanka-Eritrea ties break-down (So Sorry)
Sunday, 28 February 2010 10:00
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The Sri Lankan government’s attempt to establish diplomatic ties with the state of Eritrea have diminished due to certain media reports published in recent times, Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told Daily Mirror online.
“It came out in the papers and now Eritrea has completely shut down everything; they don’t talk to us and they completely cut us off,” the Defense Secretary said in an interview with the website.
Further all plans to establish a Sri Lankan consulate in Eritrea, in order to monitor various LTTE elements within that nation, have also failed. “There were plans to open a consulate there; but even that they refused,” the Defense Secretary said.
He further emphasized that the exposure of defense matters via the media was counter productive, in gathering information.
“We had very bad experiences with Eritrea. We know that there are certain assets that belong to the LTTE; but because it came out in a newspaper they refused to cooperate with us. Now we are in the process of redeveloping our ties with them, from scratch,” Rajapaksa said.
The Secretary of Defense made these statements in response to the questions of whether elements of the LTTE were trying to regroup and what intelligence was being gathered through the chief LTTE arms procurer Kumaran Padmanadan (KP) who is now in government custody.
