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The EU announced its decision to proscribe the LTTE on May 30, 2006 in the wake of the then Bush administration campaigning on behalf of Sri Lanka to have the group listed as a terrorist group. The US proscribed the group in 1997.
Addressing a public gathering at Crow Island, Weerawansa alleged that the EU obviously believed that those who had made Europe their home would influence their relatives here to vote for Wickremesinghe.
The EU was pursuing an agenda to facilitate Wickremesinghe’s victory, the minister alleged, recalling the circumstances under which the EU deprived Generalised System of Preferences (GSP plus) on February 16, 2010 and recently threatened to stop fish imports over Sri Lanka’s failure to regulate fishing.
Weerawansa claimed that the removal of GSP plus was aimed at instigating street protests by garment workers. The NFF leader accused the EU of pursuing a political strategy at the expense of Sri Lanka. Having failed to sabotage the garment trade, the EU was now trying to deprive the country fish export revenue.
Weerawansa said that perhaps Sri Lanka would have no option but to look for the Chinese market.
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