Kadirgamar to meet Powell
[03 May 2001]

Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar now on an official visit to the US was due to meet US Secretary of State Collin Powell in Washington.

Minister Kadirgamar left the island last Tuesday for talks with senior officials of the Bush administration.

The main focus of the talks is likely to be the current peace moves with Norwegian facilitation.

The United States banned the LTTE in 1997 and they were redesignated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1999 by the US State Department.

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