
Lanka’s
National Secretariat for Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) issued a
statement on 1 July, reportedly stating that: ‘It has been revealed
that certain NGOs conduct press conferences, workshops, trainings (sic)
for journalists and dissemination of press releases, which is beyond
their mandate. We reiterate that all NGO should prevent from such
unauthorised activities with immediate effect.’ The newspapers state
that this circular has only been issued to NGOs registered with the
National Secretariat for NGOs.