US achieves notable diplomatic triumph in South Asia

May 6, 2015, 12:00 pm 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center left, poses with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena before a meeting in the presidential meeting room at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2, 2015.

A noticeable weakness of the current Maithripala Sirisena administration in Sri Lanka is its lack of forthrightness in claiming victories scored by it in the foreign policy sphere. Clearly, the Maithri government has clinched some very significant such triumphs since assuming office but it seems to be taking modesty to the extremes by not sufficiently voicing these achievements. It is giving the impression of soft-paddling its pluses in foreign policy thinking and implementation, which is quite unfortunate.

US Achieves Notable Diplomatic Triumph in South Asia by Thavam Ratna