The Sri Lankan government has urged the Icelandic government to recall one of its diplomats for undertaking an unauthorized travel to the Tamil Tiger held areas in the north, Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry said Thursday in a statement.
Bjarni Vestmann, a counsellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland visited the political division of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north on Tuesday.
Officials of the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry had denied any knowledge of his visit to Sri Lanka and particularly his visit to the rebel held Wanni district in the north.
"(Icelandic) Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Gisladottir emphatically stated that the government of Iceland had not authorized Vestmann to make any contact with the LTTE," the statement said.
The Icelandic government had tendered an apology, the statement added.
Iceland contributes ground monitors who are placed in the island 's battle zones as part of the Nordic truce monitoring group, the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM).
The SLMM is in the island as part of the February 2002 ceasefire agreement brokered by the Norwegian peace facilitators.
Source: Xinhua
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