Time to tell US diplomats who is boss here
The content of the recent speech by the US
ambassador to Sri Lanka Michele J Sison to the Foreign Journalists’
Association in Colombo on the “next steps” for US engagement with
Sri Lanka is typical of the forceful and uncivilised approach to
diplomacy being practiced by US state department officials whose
career rise roughly coincides with the neocon capture of the US
government and the Armed Forces.
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International Relations and Security:
Moving forward with India
With regard to the collapse of relations with
India in the eighties, the reasons are clear enough. If anyone
doubted the corrosive effect of President Jayewardene’s Cold War
adventurism, the Annexe to the Indo-Lankan Accord makes crystal
clear what India feared. At the time the Liberal Party regretted the
fact that we should have acknowledged Indian supremacy over our
foreign relations, but we also said that, without spelling this out,
we should always have acted on the assumption that we could not
afford to alienate India. We have also always pointed out that, for
its part, when it did not feel threatened, India had usually
displayed towards Sri Lanka a generosity and understanding that were
not always a feature of its relations with its other neighbours.
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