UN will not cause impact on Lanka - Minister
Nadira Gunatilleke
The United Nations (UN) will not be able to cause any impact on Sri
Lanka, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika
Ranawaka said.
No resolution will be passed against Sri Lanka in the Security
Council or in the Human Rights Commission, he said.
“Only two or three Western and European countries and two or three
foreign `politicians’ work against Sri Lanka. All other countries,
especially newly empowered countries are with Sri Lanka,” Minister
Ranawaka said.
Addressing the weekly UPFA press briefing at the Mahaweli Centre,
Colombo yesterday, Minister Ranawaka said Sri Lanka is very proud to
have President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the leader because he shows again
and again that he is capable, strong and brave to face any type of
challenge on behalf of the country.
The President showed the country that he is ready to make whatever
sacrifice on behalf of the nation. “I am sure that any other leader
would have welcomed the UN with a red carpet betraying the country, war
heroes and the 30,000 who lost their lives,” he said.
According to Minister Ranawaka the UN Charter very clearly states
that it cannot interfere in the internal affairs of countries.
Sri Lanka receive continuous support of all the other countries,
especially newly economically empowered countries such as China, India,
Russia and South Africa. “I request our people to respond to this latest
conspiracy with a good reply on April 8 by giving a two-thirds majority
to the Government led by President Rajapaksa,” he said.
When Sri Lanka is ready to elect a legal and democratic Government
through the Parliamentary Election, the foreign representation of the
LTTE is trying to declare a `dream state of Tamil Eelam’. Evil foreign
elements follow two strategies, he said. They are forcing countries to
act against Sri Lanka using their own internal laws and forcing the UN
to act against Sri Lanka.
General Sarath Fonseka opened the door for them while the Opposition
Leader, Leader of SLFP (M) and the JVP supported this move. Today a
large number of people travel from and to the North and these evil
forces are trying to stop this progress and the development of Sri Lanka
aimed at economic independence, the Minister said.
The UN is not interested in the deaths of 650,000 innocent civilians
in Afghanistan and Iraq. There are two million permanently displaced
persons in those countries. The world needs a new UN which is in tune
with the new developments in the world and newly joined countries.
It was Asia which recorded the significant economic growth during
world economic crisis and the growth rate of US and UK was minus. All
these newly economically empowered Asian countries are with Sri Lanka,
the Minister added. |