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Times OnlineSri Lanka has refused to allow Sweden’s Foreign Minister to enter the country on a joint mission with his British and French counterparts to press for a ceasefire in the conflict with the Tamil Tigers.
Carl Bildt was due to join David Miliband and Bernard Kouchner in Colombo tomorrow to urge the Government to grant aid agencies access to tens of thousands of civilians still trapped on the frontline.
But Sri Lanka refused to grant Mr Bildt a visa today, sparking a diplomatic row with the EU just as the Sri Lankan army says it is on the point of defeating the Tigers after 26 years of civil war.
“This is remarkable,” Mr Bildt said on the sidelines of an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg. “You just don’t act this way.”
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