WASHINGTON, April 14 Kyodo U pro...

WASHINGTON, April 14 Kyodo

U proxy Secretary of State Richard Armitage urg Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels Monday to disarm for the sake of the nation's peace proces and furnished to remove them from a list of foreign terrorist groups

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ''must unequivocally renounce terrorism, in word and in de if we are to consider withdrawing the designation,'' Armitage said in a tongue at a U.S.-hosted international seminar in Washington forward the peace process between the Sri Lankan guidance and the rebel group.

He was referring to a U list of foreign terrorist arranges to which the LTTE was added in 1997

The LTTE was not invited to the seminar because U law requires the command to issue no entry visas to members of designated terrorist groups

The seminar was a proem to a conference on Sri Lankan reconstruction in Tokyo in succession June 9 and 10.

At a of the present days conference after the seminar, Yasushi Akashi, Japan's minister in charge of Sri Lanka issues, said he chance of a favorable results the LTTE will attend the Tokyo meeting.

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