Rajapaksa thanks Manmohan for UN abstention
Days after India bucked domestic political pressures and signaled it would not slam Sri Lanka publicly and abstained on a crucial vote at the UN Human Rights Council, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse sent a warm thank you letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
India’s abstention has reopened relations with Sri Lanka. Indian officials said it gives them greater flexibility to pressure Colombo on political devolution to the minority Tamils.
This week, India’s high commissioner to Sri Lanka Y K Sinha said in Colombo, “India considers early progress on devolution and a political settlement as being crucial to Sri Lanka to tackle mounting international pressure.”
Sri Lanka, in a goodwill gesture, freed all the Indian fishermen held for crossing over into Lankan waters.
While India may have repaired ties with Colombo, India also has a greater responsibility now to hold Rajapakse’s feet to the fire, particularly to restart devolution talks with the Tamil National Alliance. – TOI
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Mr Manmohan Singh is a dead man walking.
Narendra Modi, the Obarma of New India, will be returned with an absolute majority in Parliament. Na Mo (Narendra Modi) will transform India into the new superpower and GOSL should develop strategies to deal with this new ealities in SE Asia.
Also of significance is the US Lame Duck President’s visit to the Phillipines later this month. What’s up? Why is the US suddenly woken up from slumber and began loving SE Asia? There’s something there and the sooner we identify the US intentions, the better off we would be.
In the meantime, can we offer a beach hut to Manmohan Singh in Arugam Bay?
Rajapaksa must becareful, remember India was neutral at the voting. That means India would be one of the countries who will be welcomed by the GOSL to investigate war crimes. By then dont forget we have a BJP goverment with the support of Tamil Nadu. We dont know what the plan behind this abstention is.
Good writing Ganjapani, Manmohan Singh’s Italian Mafia supported Congress Government and oits lackeys are on the way out.
The successor, Narendra Modi, is a hindu supremacist. Muslims have no place in future India.