Proposed NCM a clumsy diversionary UNP manoeuvre - Minister
Peiris
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G L Peiris |
This brief comment is being made in response to repeated requests by
the media for my views on the No-Confidence Motion (NCM) submitted
against me by the United National Party, and referred to prominently in
sections of the media, states External Affairs Minister Prof G L Peiris
in a release. The release further states:
“For my own part, I welcome unreservedly the No-Confidence Motion as
an opportunity of value to put firmly into the public domain, for all to
see and reflect upon, unmistakable evidence, including official
documents published by foreign governments, indicating the extent to
which the Leader of the United National Party has tried to inflict
incalculable damage on Sri Lanka, and the intensity of the efforts
consistently made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Government to
protect the integrity and stature of our nation against this onslaught.
“There is a supreme irony – surely not lost on the public – in the
spectacle of Ranil Wickremesinghe, leader of the UNP, instigating his
party to move a motion of No-Confidence in the Minister of External
Affairs, when nothing is more painfully evident than the degree of
confidence which his own party places in him and his leadership.
“The public is treated to the continuing fiasco of members of his
party leaving him in droves, making on his qualities of leadership
comments reflecting depths of despair, unique in the annals of political
history.
“The proposed motion is nothing but a clumsy diversionary manoeuvre,
to distract the attention of the public from the most recent episode
this week, in which eight more members of his party, having made
historic statements on the floor of Parliament, parted company with him.
”As for the panel appointed by the Secretary-General of the United
Nations, the truth is that no one has contributed to this situation in
more generous measure than Mr Wickremasinghe himself. It is hard to
think of any instance of a political leader who has had so little
hesitation in exhorting foreign governments to undermine the vital
interests of his own country, in pursuit of partisan goals which he has
convincingly proved himself unable to achieve by his own strength.
“I look forward to the debate as an opportunity for exposing the
frivolous nature of the motion and the pettiness that underpins it,” the
release states. |