New Delhi, Nov 28: European Union today said in unequivocal terms that the international community will not tolerate any "divisive" outcome in Sri Lanka and hoped that LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's commitment to peace was "genuine".
"I don't think the international community will tolerate a divisive outcome. He (Prabhakaran) has committed to peace six times during my hour-and-10 minute meeting," EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten, who met Prabhakaran earlier this week, told reporters here. Patten, who is here to participate in the two-day Indo-EU summit, held talks with Prabhakaran in the LTTE-held town of Kilinochchi on Wednesday. Asked if he believed in what Prabhakaran had told him, Patten said "the past is not happy. I hope his commitment to peace now is genuine."

Bureau Report