Brussels, 30/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - As announced in issue 9196, the EU decided on 29 May to add the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to the EU blacklist of terror organisations, although the Sri Lankan separatists have threatened to withdraw from the 2002 ceasefire agreement if the EU added them to the blacklist. The decision means the LTTE's financial and other assets in the EU will be frozen. It also means that it is now illegal for the Tamil Tigers or any intermediary to seek finance from the Tamil diaspora. The Tamil Tigers control a large part of North East Sri Lanka. They are calling for majority Tamil areas to have autonomy from Sri Lanka, a mainly Sinhalese country. Sri Lanka is currently suffering from renewed violence clashes between the Tamil separatists and the army. Adding the LTTE to the blacklist follows agreement in principle by representatives of all 25 EU Member States a meeting on 18 May, following in the path of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany. The civil war has been waging in Sri Lanka since 1972. It has already caused the deaths of some 60,000 people. Since 2002, Norway has been acting as a mediator, trying to find a lasting solution to the conflict.