Date:26/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/26/stories/2008032657470100.htm

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India won’t allow division of Sri Lanka: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake

Jerusalem: “India will never allow a separate independent state for Tamils in Sri Lanka because such a development will have a disastrous effect in India,” the island’s Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake told a gathering here.

“India has always been committed to Sri Lanka’s territorial integrity.”

The Prime Minister, who is on a four-day visit, claimed that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader V. Prabakaran wanted to create a Tamil state by “including certain parts of India as well.” — PTI