Sri Lanka has urged the United States not to be one sided by focusing only on human rights issues when there are business and other opportunities in post-war Sri Lanka.
External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris noted that a year after the end of the civil war, "the circumstances are propitious for a certain strengthening and deepening of the relationship between Sri Lanka and the United States," Sri Lanka's chief diplomat said.
"We are not in anyway resentful of the focus on human rights. That is understandable. We are not complaining about it," Peiris told a gathering hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank yesterday, according to AFP.
"But we are making the point that the relationship should not be one dimensional. There are many other things that Sri Lanka and the United States can do together," he said.
Dailymirror
Mr. Peiris is an educated man, very disappointed to hear such a thing from him
human rights are not important ?
ayyo 'suba anagathayak'
rata wasiyage mulika aithiwasikam thamai wadagath
rate nithiya, usawi hariyata wada karan na ona
pagawa, dushanaya nathi wen ne ona
suddata burana 'suba anagathayak' kattiya mokada me sudda ekka yalu wen ne balan ne
sudda ge salli one wela wage
Mr. Wimal kiyan ne mekata 'sudda gen higakama' kiyala
sudda ne lankawe badu gan ne ($$$$$$$$$
)
pachavahini suddata mahasona kiwwata baya wei api
sunil
External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris noted that a year after the end of the civil war, "the circumstances are propitious for a certain strengthening and deepening of the relationship between Sri Lanka and the United States," Sri Lanka's chief diplomat said.
"We are not in anyway resentful of the focus on human rights. That is understandable. We are not complaining about it," Peiris told a gathering hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank yesterday, according to AFP.
"But we are making the point that the relationship should not be one dimensional. There are many other things that Sri Lanka and the United States can do together," he said.
Dailymirror
Mr. Peiris is an educated man, very disappointed to hear such a thing from him
human rights are not important ?
ayyo 'suba anagathayak'
rata wasiyage mulika aithiwasikam thamai wadagath
rate nithiya, usawi hariyata wada karan na ona
pagawa, dushanaya nathi wen ne ona
suddata burana 'suba anagathayak' kattiya mokada me sudda ekka yalu wen ne balan ne
sudda ge salli one wela wage
Mr. Wimal kiyan ne mekata 'sudda gen higakama' kiyala
sudda ne lankawe badu gan ne ($$$$$$$$$
)pachavahini suddata mahasona kiwwata baya wei api
sunil
