Media Minister tells international community :

Support - Yes Interference - No

Irangika RANGE

The Government welcomes international support to carry out development activities and humanitarian mission to rebuild Sri Lanka. But it does not welcome unnecessary interferences in our internal affairs, Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardana said.

Lakshman Yapa Abeywardana

The countries which voted against Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council were compelled to do so as a result of false propaganda launched by the LTTE and diaspora supporting the LTTE, the Minister said yesterday.

Addressing the weekly press-briefing, the Minister said the Government through Sri Lankan Embassies in these countries will launch international propaganda campaigns to reveal the country’s real situation and the humanitarian mission carried out by the Armed Forces.

“We are not against the countries which did not vote for Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council,” he said. “The victory at the Human Rights Council is a result of the cooperation and assistance from the international community,” he said.

He said the UNP had questioned if President Mahinda Rajapaksa was playing Robert Mugabe’s or Nelson Mandela’s role.

“I emphasize that President Rajapaksa never substituted for both characters as he followed the best and exclusive methods suitable to the country to eliminate terrorism and make the entire country peaceful and prosperous,” the Minister said.