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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7728894" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka has rejected the European Union's conditions — including  human rights improvements — for renewing special trade benefits for the  island nation, the foreign minister said Thursday.              External Affairs Minister Gamini Peiris said the government would not  agree to the 15 conditions, which he said would involve "fundamental  changes" to the constitution and "drastic changes" to legislative  framework. He said such actions would infringe on country's sovereignty  and could weaken national security.              Peiris said "no self respecting government anywhere in the world  would agree to undertake to fulfill these conditions."                                   Sri Lanka's trade benefits with the world's biggest consumer market  are due to expire Aug. 15. The EU had asked Sri Lanka to give a written  commitment by July 1 pledging to improve human rights before it would  consider renewing them.              Losing the trade benefits could cost Sri Lanka some 78 million euros  ($96 million), based on its 2008 exports. Sri Lanka exports about 1.24  billion euros ($1.7 billion) worth of goods to Europe per year.              An EU report last year said Sri Lanka is breaching United Nations  commitments to respect civil and political rights and violating a  convention against torture and a charter on children's rights.              Sri Lanka is also facing growing international criticism for not  examining alleged abuses that occurred during the last phase of the  civil war that ended in May 2009, when government forces crushed the  rebels who had fought for a separate state in the north for ethnic  minority Tamils.              The U.N. says more than 7,000 civilians died in the last five months  of the conflict.              On Tuesday, the U.N. appointed a three-member panel to look into the  alleged war abuses. Sri Lanka strongly opposed the panel, calling it "an  unwarranted and unnecessary interference with a sovereign nation."<img src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/fi/gr/ap_106x27.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />rata wasiyage mulika aithiwasikam rakin na baha kiyana anduwak <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/angry.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angry:" title="Angry    :angry:" data-shortname=":angry:" />hoda deyak narakak karan na puluwan 'suba anagathayata' witheraijanathawata thamai duka enne lokkonta neweimehema giyoth ආසියාවේ ආශ්චර්ය wena eka hinayak witherai <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/rolleyes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Rolleyes    :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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