මෙන්න කෙරී ඇවිත් ෆෙඩරල් තැගිත් ඇවිත්
ලංකාවේ දෙමළ අයට වෙනම ෆෙඩරල් රාජ්යයක් ලබා දෙන්න කියලා කිව්ව ඇමරිකානුවා තානාපති කරලාලු.............
http://asiantribune.com/node/86881
Atul Keshap: New US Envoy to Sri Lanka for 'Federal Structure'
Fri, 2015-05-01 13:32 — editor
Daya Gamage - Asian Tribune US National Correspondent
Washington, D.C. 01 May (Asiantribune.com):
Soon to arrive in Colombo the United States ambassador to Sri Lanka, Atul Keshap, has already gone on record that the United States supports a federal structure as a catalyst for national reconciliation among the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority.
Atul Keshap - New US Envoy to Sri Lanka
Mr. Keshap who is expected to present his credentials to President Maitripala Sirisena soon as America's diplomatic envoy in Colombo made the authoritative declaration that this South Asian nation needs a federal structure to redress minority Tamil grievances when he was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's South Asian Bureau - the next immediate official to Assistant Secretary Nisha Biswal. Previously, he was working very closely on Sri Lankan issues with Robert Blake when he was the assistant secretary of the South Asian Bureau. Mr. Blake was the US envoy in Colombo during the period the Sri Lanka military undertook the final assault on the Tamil Tiger movement.
Atul Keshap has been to Sri Lanka on two occasions, one in June 2014 and the other in February this year.
Ignoring the Sinhalese consensus that establishing a federal structure in the Island is a stepping stone for separatism, a political concept under which the Tamil Tigers launched its military offensive since the mid-seventies until its domestic demise in May 2009, Atul Keshap made the statements to the effect of the necessity of a federal structure when he accompanied assistant secretary Biswal on an official tour in June 2014 at media interview in Colombo.
Officials in the United States Department of State based in Washington do not make policy statements to the effect what other nations should undertake unless they are determined as policy planks at the highest level of the American government.
When Mr. Atul Keshap, not once but several occasions in the same interview with a Sri Lankan newspaper - Daily Mirror - about the vitality of establishing a federal structure in Sri Lanka, he was obviously pronouncing a policy plank of the United States Government already determined at some high level.
At this June 20, 2014 interview Mr. Keshap told what the United States believed in saying: "the U.S. believes in a very bright future for this country and it believes that Sri Lanka has the potential in terms of human capital, in terms of resources, in terms of geographic location, in terms of having secured peace after a very brutal civil war - a country connected to the entire world. A country that is not the subject of UN Human Rights Council Resolutions because it has perfected its democracy and perfected its respect for human rights. A country that has created a meaningful formula for devolution of power and federalism, to ensure coherence among the various regions. A country that is reconciled, peaceful, and prosperous".
Lamenting about the long delay in bringing changes Mr. Keshap said: It’s been five years since the war ended and I haven’t seen any meaningful discussion or movement along the lines of a meaningful negotiation of the very tricky political issues related to federalism.
He reiterated in another place in this interview: "we care about meaningful devolution of powers to ensure that a true federal compact can be forged to really cement the peace and put the country on a good track".
He was talking about the success of America's diversity: "Our view in America is that our diversity gives us our strength. And that the very dazzling diversity of the American people is something to be cherished and appreciated. Diversity is our strength and equality is our strength and it makes our country more coherent, it makes it more strong, it makes it more stable, and I believe it makes it more prosperous".
ලංකාවේ දෙමළ අයට වෙනම ෆෙඩරල් රාජ්යයක් ලබා දෙන්න කියලා කිව්ව ඇමරිකානුවා තානාපති කරලාලු.............
http://asiantribune.com/node/86881
Atul Keshap: New US Envoy to Sri Lanka for 'Federal Structure'
Fri, 2015-05-01 13:32 — editor
Daya Gamage - Asian Tribune US National Correspondent
Washington, D.C. 01 May (Asiantribune.com):
Soon to arrive in Colombo the United States ambassador to Sri Lanka, Atul Keshap, has already gone on record that the United States supports a federal structure as a catalyst for national reconciliation among the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority.
Atul Keshap - New US Envoy to Sri Lanka
Mr. Keshap who is expected to present his credentials to President Maitripala Sirisena soon as America's diplomatic envoy in Colombo made the authoritative declaration that this South Asian nation needs a federal structure to redress minority Tamil grievances when he was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's South Asian Bureau - the next immediate official to Assistant Secretary Nisha Biswal. Previously, he was working very closely on Sri Lankan issues with Robert Blake when he was the assistant secretary of the South Asian Bureau. Mr. Blake was the US envoy in Colombo during the period the Sri Lanka military undertook the final assault on the Tamil Tiger movement.
Atul Keshap has been to Sri Lanka on two occasions, one in June 2014 and the other in February this year.
Ignoring the Sinhalese consensus that establishing a federal structure in the Island is a stepping stone for separatism, a political concept under which the Tamil Tigers launched its military offensive since the mid-seventies until its domestic demise in May 2009, Atul Keshap made the statements to the effect of the necessity of a federal structure when he accompanied assistant secretary Biswal on an official tour in June 2014 at media interview in Colombo.
Officials in the United States Department of State based in Washington do not make policy statements to the effect what other nations should undertake unless they are determined as policy planks at the highest level of the American government.
When Mr. Atul Keshap, not once but several occasions in the same interview with a Sri Lankan newspaper - Daily Mirror - about the vitality of establishing a federal structure in Sri Lanka, he was obviously pronouncing a policy plank of the United States Government already determined at some high level.
At this June 20, 2014 interview Mr. Keshap told what the United States believed in saying: "the U.S. believes in a very bright future for this country and it believes that Sri Lanka has the potential in terms of human capital, in terms of resources, in terms of geographic location, in terms of having secured peace after a very brutal civil war - a country connected to the entire world. A country that is not the subject of UN Human Rights Council Resolutions because it has perfected its democracy and perfected its respect for human rights. A country that has created a meaningful formula for devolution of power and federalism, to ensure coherence among the various regions. A country that is reconciled, peaceful, and prosperous".
Lamenting about the long delay in bringing changes Mr. Keshap said: It’s been five years since the war ended and I haven’t seen any meaningful discussion or movement along the lines of a meaningful negotiation of the very tricky political issues related to federalism.
He reiterated in another place in this interview: "we care about meaningful devolution of powers to ensure that a true federal compact can be forged to really cement the peace and put the country on a good track".
He was talking about the success of America's diversity: "Our view in America is that our diversity gives us our strength. And that the very dazzling diversity of the American people is something to be cherished and appreciated. Diversity is our strength and equality is our strength and it makes our country more coherent, it makes it more strong, it makes it more stable, and I believe it makes it more prosperous".
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