Conspiracies won’t affect President – External Affairs Minister
President Mahinda Rajapaksa would not be stifled by conspiracies to prevent him from travelling and would remain dedicated to Sri Lanka’s progress, External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said.
Addressing a press briefing at the External Affairs Ministry, Prof Peiris said that all politically motivated campaigns against Sri Lanka will fail as they are based on wrong information and not based on objective assessments.
He said a vicious campaign has been launched to prevent President Mahinda Rajapaksa from travelling to other countries and to silence his voice.
He said that the infamous Channel 4 fiasco is also part of this vicious campaign.
The latest attempt of this campaign is to issue summons on President Rajapaksa.
‘He cannot be served summons in courts under International Law, he said.
The External Affairs Minister added President Mahinda Rajapaksa is enjoying the full benefits of sovereign immunity as the Head of State, twice elected by the people of Sri Lanka and he cannot be summoned by any court under International Law.
‘This legislation was amply enforced in Sri Lanka in 2000 and the President has constitutional immunity in Sri Lanka too, he added.
Minister Prof Peiris said that President Rajapaksa will travel to any country of his choice.
He said that the Channel 4 fiasco is a completely politically motivated campaign to embarrass the country at a crucial time. The minister recollected how the first Channel 4 video clip surfaced when the European Commission was about to meet at Brussels over the granting of GSP+ to Sri Lanka.
He said the second video clip was on Channel 4 TV, the day prior to his meeting with British Foreign Secretary Willam Hague and the third clip was telecast when the President was about to leave for London for a lecture at the Oxford Union.
The minister added that the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) has publicly said that they will launch a full inquiry into this video clip.
Minister Peiris said the Commission has invited international organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, to provide information about these videos to facilitate the Commission’s inquiry. “No organization has accepted the invitation extended by the Commission, the minister said.
”These organizations are pointing fingers at the government and the Security Forces without making representations to the independent body set up in Sri Lanka probing such matters.”
”Their reluctance amply demonstrates that these campaigns are carried out by certain elements with vested interests,” the minister said.
The minister said that those who failed to achieve their objective through terrorism are trying to threaten Sri Lanka’s economy by launching malicious campaigns such as Channel 4.
He added that the Defence Ministry will launch a full scale investigation into this Channel 4 video clip in addition to the inquiry which is to be made by the LLRC.
Referring to the controversial Darusman Report, the minister stressed that it is totally based on misinformation and contains factual errors. Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal and Director General President’s Media Division Bandula Jayasekera were present.
Courtesy: Daily News
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Actualy we don’t need to travel away or be away from this gold environment of Dhamma at least for a moment.
Ever thirsty animal westerns are the fucking travellers in the world.
They’re driven by false fool story of the gods myth. they’re on the way of astray. Misguided by the faulty view.
They’re very far from the truth. Mixing with them is a real trouble for us.
But the like minded abetting slavers of gods myth in SL are wishing to be with those western animals. So just let all these misbelievers keep as far as possible away from us..!
In recent past, western misbelievers told that, the earth is holding by a hand of fucking superman called atles. Then the abetting slavers in SL also had included that fucking false fool story in our educational books to make fool us. What a miserable damage do these mother fucking donkeys in the world..?
Now these bloody fool slavers say that they’re in the fucking false hands of the unknown god..!
These misbelievers have born in the world only to make blind the human kind.!
They say that false god is their mother & father, while their real mother fucking fathers & mothers alive here as humans.!
So are they not real fool mother fuckers in the world, who don’t know own mothers or fathers yet..? Can’t they understand how they’ve created by mother fucking of their fathers..?
You’re the creators of all problems in this world by spreading gods myth & misleading folk..! The great earth won’t bear you blind misbelievers for long…!