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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7427412" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's opposition leader Ranil  Wickremasinghe questioned the government as to how it planned to secure  the European Union's tariff concession GSP+ while breaching privileges  of Democratic National Alliance (DNA) leader and parliamentarian General  (Retd) Sarath Fonseka.   Wickremasinghe made this comment in parliament yesterday (06) during  an uproar in the House when the opposition questioned the validity of  the Export and Import Tax presented by the government yesterday.   "The European Union had emphasized on Human Rights violations in Sri  Lanka and had put restoring those rights as a criteria to grant GSP+  and the government is trying to campaign for it while violating the  rights of the retired general," he said.   The government said yesterday it is to send a high level delegation  to Brussels later this month to negotiate the suspension of the GSP+  facility under which the Sri Lankan exporters get tax concessions in the  European market.CP</blockquote>

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