GSP + still in force - Dr Amunugama

Katugastota group

The Opposition claim that Sri Lanka lost the GSP + concession on garment exports is not true and it is still in force.

However, the LTTE and its foreign allies are projecting Sri Lanka's Human Rights matters in a bad light to terminate the concession, Public Administration and Home Affairs Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama said.

Addressing a group of garment factory workers at Nugawela Monday Minister Amunugama said only the Government under President Mahinda Rajapaksa eliminated the scourge of terrorism from this soil and no human rights were violated.

It is only because of pro-LTTE utterances by Ranil Wickremesinghe and Sarath Fonseka, that the Western countries have taken up cudgels over the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka.

Today, women workers have power to dispel these myths floating in the Western countries by voting en masse for the UPFA at the forthcoming general election, Dr Amunugama said. UPFA candidate and CPC councillor Dilum Amunugama and several others were also present.