[ad#200×200]Commander of US Pacific Joint Command, Admiral Timothy Keating while commending the effective measures adopted by the Government of Sri Lanka in combating LTTE terrorism said ”We are hopeful that the LTTE would be a decreasingly important factor of much less reach than they are and have been in the past,” foreign media sources said.
As head of the US Pacific Command, with its headquarters in Hawaii, Keating is responsible for US military operation ranging from Australia and New Zealand to China, Taiwan and Japan to India and Sri Lanka.
Speaking to foreign correspondents in New York yesterday (06), top US military official, Keating added “We are very pleased the Sri Lankan Navy has been able to wage an increasingly effective campaign against the LTTE,”
“We are assured and gratified by the progress that the Sri Lankan military is making, and I think, the Sri Lankan military would be the first to admit that there is work to be done,” he noted.
Mr. Keating was also of the view that by providing more capability and capacity to the Sri Lanka military the war against the LTTE terrorism would be more effective and efficient.
“I am confident the Sri Lankan military have every intention to defeat the LTTE. Surely, they would like to have greater capability and capacity, but the progress they are making is commendable,” he said.