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'No review to remove LTTE from US' terrorist organisation list'

Washington, Feb 05: The US has said that there is no review or move to remove the Liberation of Tamil Tigers Elam (LTTE) from the list of terrorist organisations.

"LTTE is on our foreign terrorist organisation list. That's where it stands," State Department spokesperson, Robert Wood, told reporters on Wednesday in response to a question over some Tamil American organisations request in this regard.

"I'm not aware that there's a review process going on right now with regard to that," Wood said.

A group of Tamil American organisations have written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking her to remove LTTE from the list of terrorist organisations.

Both the US and Great Britain had expressed their concern over the humanitarian situation in the northern areas of Sri Lanka because of the civil war in the region.

In a joint statement, they urged both the government and the LTTE to agree to a temporary no-fire period. "Both sides need to allow civilians and wounded to leave the conflict area and to grant access for humanitarian agencies," said the statement after Clinton's meeting with British counterpart David Miliband.

Bureau Report