Intelsat officials met with Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States April 10 to discuss how to stop unauthorized use of an Intelsat satellite by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a terrorist group based in Sri Lanka, Intelsat announced.

The U.S. State Department lists the LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization, and their transmissions are a violation of Sri Lankan and U.S. laws.

"Intelsat does not tolerate terrorists or others operating illegally on its satellites," Phillip Spector, Intelsat’s general counsel, said in a statement. "Since we first learned of the LTTE’s signal piracy, we have been actively pursuing a number of technical alternatives to halt the transmissions. We are clear in our resolve to ending this terrorist organization’s unauthorized use of our satellite."