The deportation of Tamil asylum seekers, due for Thursday, has been halted by the High Court in London.

The landmark ruling means that the deportations of all failed Tamil asylum seekers will have to be reviewed.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has praised the Tamil Diaspora's contribution to life in Britain and reiterated calls for an investigation into alleged violations of international law in Sri Lanka.

The Prime Minister's statement given to the Global Tamil Forum for their 3rd anniversary conference at the British Houses of Parliament, has been reproduced in full below.

"I am very pleased to send my best wishes to today's event, the Global Tamil Forum's 3rd Anniversary Conference.

TNA MP Suresh Premachandran has stated that the Tamil National Alliance would not be waiting "forever" to pursue the South African initiative of talks between the Tamil party and the Sri Lankan government, stating that pre-conditions for talks had already been laid out.

Tamil Guardian caught up with the leader of the Tamil National Alliance, R Sampanthan, at the sidelines of the Global Tamil Forum's 3rd anniversary conference in London.

A prominent barrister, Geoffrey Robertson QC called on Australia and other commonwealth countries to boycott the Common wealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) due to be held in Sri Lanka later this year.

In accordance with a bilateral agreement signed two years ago, Sri Lanka has commenced the transfer of Indian nationals imprisoned in Sri Lankan jails back to India, announced the Indian High Commission on Thursday.

The High Commission stated that two Indians were being transferred this week under the Transer of Sentenced Persons Act. A further eighteen prisoners would be transferred back within a week, said the mission.

Tamils Against Genocide (TAG) supported the call for India to show leadership and co-sponsor the proposed resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council.

Speaking at a press conference organised by British Tamils Forum (BTF) in New Delhi on Tuesday, Henrietta Briscoe of TAG argued that India should push to make the US based resolution stronger and emphasised the need for an independent international investigation into the alleged human rights violations by Sri Lanka.

The Global Tamil Forum's 3rd Anniversary Conference is currently under way in the houses of parliament.

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Update 16:11 GMT: Unfortunately we reached our daily limit for tweets and our now tweeting intermittently until we recover full capability. Watch this space for full coverage of the day's events.

The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he will stand by his decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka later this year, in response to calls for him to withdraw the threat.

"I have indicated that unless changes occur in Sri Lanka I will not be attending the Commonwealth summit there," Harper told the Canadian parliament.

Speaking at the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the leader of the Sri Lankan delegation to the Human Rights Council and Minister of Plantation Industries, Mahinda Samarasinghe, attempted to highlight Sri Lanka’s ‘achievements’ in working towards reconciliation.

Speaking on issues related to the appropriation of Tamil land, Samarasinghe, informed the UN of Sri Lanka's plans to produce a 'Fourth Land Commission' which will address land return and resettlement disputes. Coincidentally the idea of a commission to address the land appropriation issues was only formulated a week before the start of the UNHRC sessions.

Proclaiming the resettlement of Internally Displaces Peoples as a ' historic moment', Samarasinghe told the UN,

"resettlement is now complete and there are no more IDPs or IDP camps on the island".

Samarasinghe also stated that "the strength of the military in the North has been reduced considerably", on the same day that TNA MP Sumanthiran told the GTF conference in  London, that there was 1 member of the security forces for every 5 civilians in the Northern Province.

Download a copy of Samarasinghe's speech here.