TNA meets US officials in Washington

28 October, 2011  
TNA meets US officials in Washington

 

	The delegation visited Washington at the invitation of the State Department

A delegation of MPs of the Tamil National Alliance ( TNA) has been discussing the current situation in Sri Lanka with the US State Department officials in Washington.

The delegation led by R Sampanthan, leader of the TNA parliamentary group, has been meeting State Department officials since 26 Oct and would be in US until 04 Nov, meeting a range of policy makers in the US.

TNA Member of Parliament, Suresh Premachandran, told BBC Tamil that their visit was at the invitation of the State Department and was planned during the recent visit of Robert O Blake, US Assistant Secretary of State, to Sri Lanka.

Mr Premachandran said senior officials of the US State Department listened to their views on the lack of progress in addressing humanitarian concerns of the Tamil population in the North and East.

He said the US officials were also aware of the lack of progress in arriving at a political solution to the ethnic conflict.

Mr Premachandran said the international community, including US, Europe and India, had to exert pressure on Sri Lanka to address the humanitarian concerns and for political reforms.