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The reason for LTTE's much suspected cease-fire was revealed after its theoretician Anton Balasingham recently appealed the Britain government not to ban the terrorist organization, political observers said. "With the impending danger of being banned in U.K. the LTTE is trying to score points to be excluded from the list," Minister of Internal and International Trade and Shipping Development Rauf Hakeem has stated last week. Commenting on government's present stance on LTTE's cease-fire, he has stated that the government was wise in not responding. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar has also warned earlier that the reason for LTTE's co-operation with the Norwegian peace initiative was to exclude it self from the list of organizations to be proscribed in Britain. The cease-fire took the world by surprise when the LTTE suddenly showed of co-operation with the government for a 'peace initiative' that it has been evading since the beginning of the war. Even Anton Balasingham, shifting new gears, stated that they were delighted to note that a united voice for the Tamils was emerging as a potential force in solidarity with their struggle, when the LTTE was surreptitiously breaking its cease-fire by attacking army defences. "What we are telling Britain is simple. The LTTE is eminently qualified to come within that law," Minister Kadirgamar had stated firmly. Meanwhile, Tamil political parties are said to be awaiting a positive reply from the Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on their request to urge the Sri Lankan government to respond to LTTE's cease-fire. They had handed over a memorandum to the Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Gopalkrishna Gandhi recently.
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