The Government appreciated the US Government’s decision to designate the ‘Tamil Foundation’ as an organization extending support to LTTE and to freeze all its US assets.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama welcoming the latest designation of another LTTE front organization acknowledged the consistent and sustained efforts of the US Government to curb LTTE related fundraising, money laundering and procurement of supplies in the United States.

He recalled the several productive meetings with officials of the US Treasury and State Department in Washington D.C. during the period 2007-2008 where he drew the attention of the US authorities on the dire need to dismantle the LTTE fund raising networks globally.

The Government of Sri Lanka continues to highlight the need to enlighten individuals that donate to seemingly charitable organizations such as the TRO and the Tamil Foundation that their funds are invariably channeled to the LTTE’s terror campaign against civilians and not used for humanitarian purposes as can be witnessed by the absence of any useful facilities for civilian use in the recently liberated areas in the North and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.

Citing the close connections of the TRO and the Tamil Foundation to the LTTE, the Government would also like to point out the need to hold leaders and agents of such organizations accountable under law for their reprehensible conduct to propagate terrorism in Sri Lanka.