The Norwegian government apologized to Sri Lanka after several demonstrators of the Indian Ocean island country's minority Tamils broke into the Sri Lankan embassy in Oslo on Sunday, according to reports reaching here from Oslo.
The Norwegian government condemned some unauthorized persons to enter the Sri Lankan embassy and would order the police to give better protection of the embassy, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a statement.
Earlier on Sunday several pro-Tamil Tiger rebels demonstrators entered into the Sri Lankan embassy during a protest in Oslo. "They damaged windows and broke some things inside and then disappeared," a local police officer was quoted as saying, adding that no one was arrested, the officer added.
Tamils began demonstration in Oslo last week to pressure Norway to use its influence to stop the violence in the country. Norway arranged a cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in 2002 but it collapsed in 2005.
More than 70,000 have died in the civil war since the mid 1980s,according to the UN.
Source:Xinhua
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