Air strikes against Libya wrong - Power Minister
Disna MUDALIGE
All people who love democracy and freedom should join hands without
country, religion and racial differences to speak against the Western
nations' psychosis to invade other countries, said Power and Energy
Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka. Addressing a JHU press conference
held at the Mahaweli Centre yesterday, he said that the air strikes
carried out by western nations against Libya provide a wrong influence
to the world. They should stop interfering in the matters related to
other nations, he stressed.
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Minister Champika Ranawaka |
The Minister stated that this erroneous action demonstrates the poor
quality of democracy of the western nations. He observed that the Libyan
nation is on the verge of becoming two states under the present crisis.
He said that each and every state should have the power to decide on
their own future.
The Minister also pointed out that even though riots were held for
six weeks in France against the Sakoszy rule nobody attempted to bomb
the country to settle the situation. "There are riots in Yemen, Bahrain
and Saudi Arabia too. But no action has been taken regarding these
riots.
This shows that the western nations follow a different policy towards
the states affiliated to them while following another policy towards
others," he said.
Minister Ranawaka also revealed that the attempts by western nations'
to attack Sri Lanka during May 2009 was defeated by the strategic and
accurate political decisions made at the right time by the country's
leadership.
"Those western nations were attempting to change the political
leadership of our country while disguising to appear on behalf of the
security of civilians. Various foreign agents came to our country with
this purpose in mind", the Minister said.
He said that the Provincial Council Election was conducted amidst the
war to show the world that people in Sri Lanka were with the governing
party and that democracy rules in it. He thanked the voters who
supported the governing party during that crucial election which
obstructed the hidden aim of the western nations. |
