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Opportunity to make Sri Lanka-EU relations more stable

Sri Lankan Ambassador to the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha has said the conclusion of the Presidential Election and the re-election of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, enables the EU to re-calibrate its strategy, and find the best way possible to get together and work with Sri Lanka over the coming years, in making Sri Lanka - EU relations more stable.


Ravinatha Aryasinha

He said it has a real opportunity to do so, through the manner in which it chooses to handle the GSP+ issue.

Ambassador Aryasinha made this observation on Wednesday at the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the Countries of South Asia, during a discussion on the Sri Lankan Presidential Elections.

He also said: “At a time when the EU has shown a considerable understanding and willingness to accommodate the practical difficulties faced by some current GSP+ recipient countries at variance from the norm with respect to the 27 UN conventions, and are willing to review the rules of the scheme to accommodate others, it is hard to understand why the same rubric is not being applied in the case of Sri Lanka”.

“Sri Lanka remains hopeful that better sense will prevail upon member countries of the EU, who themselves have faced similar situations in their long history and are acutely conscious of the complexity of ‘democracies fighting terrorism’ - a phenomenon Sri Lanka, thankfully, has been able to overcome”.

 

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