UNP National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said today there would be no need for foreign experts to intervene in our internal affairs if democracy and an independent judiciary were ensured, the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recommendations carried out and the 17th Amendment re-instated.

He said a meeting at which members of foreign diplomatic missions participated was attacked but the government itself had appointed foreign experts to help and advise the Commission on Missing Persons.

“If foreign diplomats had violated any conditions laid down by the Government they should be deported. But the government is not doing so out of fear that those countries will not issue visas to Government members. The UPFA government is pursuing double standards,” Mr. Wickremesinghe told a meeting organised by the Political Victimization Committee.

He said while on the one hand the government was seeking the intervention of foreign envoys by appointing them to the Commission on Missing Persons, on the other hand it was attacking envoys who were engaged in matters pertaining to missing persons.

“The government must rescind the appointment of foreign diplomats to the Commission on Missing Persons. We won’t need this kind of intervention if democracy and an independent judiciary were ensured and LLRC recommendations implemented,” Mr. Wickremesinghe said.(Ajith Siriwardana)




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