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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7766960" data-attributes="member: 92282">The decisions taken on Sri Lanka by the European Union (EU) are not  influenced by anyone nor is the 27 member block influencing any party in  the country, the European Commission head of delegation to Sri Lanka  and the Maldives Ambassador Bernard Savage told Daily Mirror online.    Ambassador Savage said this in response to a question posed by Daily  Mirror online regarding comments made by the government, that the  conditions put forward by the EU last week in order for Sri Lanka to  obtain the GSP plus trade concessions are similar to conditions raised  by the opposition to the government.         He added that EU did not correspond with or influence opposition  parties in Sri Lanka and that those parties were free to hold their own  conditions. When questioned regarding the statement made by President  Mahinda Rajapakse to the Times of India that the withdrawal of the GSP  was politically motivated, the Ambassador refused to comment.         “Our people must know this: when I called the elections, they (EU)  immediately called for suspension of tariff concessions. It was a  politically motivated decision. If the EU doesn't want to give it  (concessions), let them keep it. I don't want it. We have gone and  explained what we have done. Now we have appointed it (an inquiry  commission), not because someone wanted me to, but because I am  committed to that,” the President had told the Times of India newspaper.      Sri Lanka stands to lose the GSP plus facility in August unless it  gives a written commitment to the EU by this Thursday to meet the  conditions put forward by the EU in a letter to the government last  week. The government has so far rejected the conditions and said it will  also not formally respond to the EU letter.Dailymirror</blockquote>

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