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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7707361" data-attributes="member: 92282">The External Affairs Ministry has alerted and sought a report from the  Sri Lankan High Commission in France over the “Buddha Bar”, an  international restaurant and bar chain which has its headquarters in  Paris, an External Affairs Ministry official told Daily Mirror online.    Sri Lanka is seeking information if patrons at this bar chain consume  liquor and dance in front of Buddha statues and will take necessary  action if found to be true.           According to the Ministry official, all other Sri Lankan missions in  Europe where the ‘Buddha Bar’ restaurant chain is situated have also  been alerted to begin investigations and submit a detailed report on  their findings.          “The External Affairs Ministry has pressed its missions to work on this  matter. The Sri Lankan mission in France has also been alerted as the  Buddha Bar headquarters is in Paris,” the official said.          However the official added that the European governments had no link to  the conduct of this international restaurant and bar chain as it was  run by private groups who had over the years answered that it was their  ‘freedom of expression’ to permit patrons of the bar to dance around the  statues if they wished.          “The European governments have nothing to do with this. It is some  private groups who have been running this chain and they have this  argument that it is their ‘freedom of expression’,” the official said.          Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne yesterday said that he has decided to  take action over the conduct of the Buddha Bar restaurant chain and  intends to inform the leaders of the countries in which these bars are  located to take action against such places.Dailymirror</blockquote>

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