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.

Source: hindu.com