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"I deeply deplore the fact that unauthorised persons unlawfully forced their way into the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo and caused extensive damage. This is a violation of Norwegian law and an action that is totally unacceptable,” said Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. In connection with an incident where demonstrators unlawfully forced their way into the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo yesterday,Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre commented as follows: "I deeply deplore the fact that unauthorised persons unlawfully forced their way into the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo and caused extensive damage. This is a violation of Norwegian law

Comment by L. Jayasooriya

The announcement by President Obama that no nation alone can solve the problems of the world ushers in a new era for America for their benefit and not so much for the benefit of the undeveloped, underdeveloped and developing nations of the world who had to live with what America has dictated. Even though there are clear signs that President Obama is being ill advised as was demonstrated by the large number of LTTE diaspora that was permitted to speak on their behalf against the government of Sri Lanka without even giving an opportunity for our government to say what she has to say we are all glad that Mr. Obama is president.

The dedicated Tamil Diaspora with its travelling companions in the international NGO networks are synchronising a campaign to attract foreign intervention and commit Sri Lanka’s military to foreign tribunals in a desperate bid to save the LTTE leadership from annihilation. That is their contribution from across the seas, in truth, to further aggravate the sad plight of the civilians trapped in the No Firing Zone (NFZ). The initial attempt was through a NGO loaded Presidential Commission of Inquiry with so called biased foreign Eminent Persons (IIPEG) in attendance to fix the Security Forces with possible war crimes on the death of the 17 aid workers of the ACF in Mutur; leading to the air attack on a fictitious Shencholai where young people in a LTTE jungle training camp were killed.

The UN Secretary General has welcomed the announcement of a two-day pause in offensive military operations by the Government of Sri Lanka. "This is less than the full humanitarian pause of several days I had pressed for but is nevertheless a useful first step and an opportunity to move towards the peaceful and orderly end to the fighting now so badly needed," Ban Ki-moon said . However he expressed optimism of the two-day pause as a beginning of a real humanitarian pause. He also appealed to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to take concrete and immediate steps to protect civilians by respecting the pause, for its full duration.

In a latest appeal, V. Anandasangaree, President – TULF, has requested Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to send sufficient food items to meet the requirements of over 200,000 people and airlift sufficient quantity of milk food and other children’s requirements, since most mothers have lost their capacity to breast-feed the babies and they are now fed with only tea, till fresh stocks arrive from Colombo. Also Anandasangaree has appealed to evacuate the Civilians trapped in the war zone. He said lives of over two hundred thousand people trapped in Newmathalan, which is also a LTTE controlled area, are at stake.