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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12430679" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRd3N-tTWQUjb6aU0E2auKTV2QaofK6_l5VoxG9w6a37BA4_bx8" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to France Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka has confirmed that  there is a threat to charge him under the penal code over some  allegations leveled against him. Ambassador Jayatilleka said the move seemed to take place in the  context of a debate on post-Geneva policy perspectives in Sri Lanka. It was reported that the External ministry’s overseas administration  division Acting Director General Mr. W.G.S.Prasanna has sent a lengthy  five page letter to Dr.Jayatilleka outlining certain charges relating to  alleged “wrongdoing ” by Dr.Jayatilleka in the conduct of the affairs  of the Embassy in Paris. The letter calls for an explanation by the envoy regarding the  charges and also asks the ambassador to show cause as to why he should  not be charged under the Country’s penal code. “This seems to take place against the backdrop and in the context of a  debate on post-Geneva policy perspectives in Sri Lanka, between three  schools of thought: (a) those collaborationists and appeasers who wish  to cave in to the US, (b) those neo-conservatives who wish to resist the  US resolution by stalling or rolling back local reforms and whipping up  xenophobia, and (c) those reform-minded Realists like myself who have  consistently urged resistance to external hegemonism and the  safeguarding of our national sovereignty against intervention precisely  by implementing our own reform programme rapidly,” Ambassador  Jayatilleka said. The letter sent to Ambassador Jayatilleka is seen as a preliminary  strike aimed at paving the way for his removal from Paris and  constitutes part of an overall conspiracy targeting Professor G.L  Peiris. Among the charges in the letter is one which queries the ambassador  about re-painting and whitewashing the Embassy and Ambassadorial  residence buildings prior to the visit of External affairs minister Prof  GL Peiris. Another charge relates to the accommodation of a first secretary who  had taken up duties in Paris at a Hotel until he was able to find a  suitable house.SL</blockquote>

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