Sunday, December 31, 2017

Diplomatic cock up- leaked letter, broken law

Sunday, December 24, 2017
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

Alice was right. It is sure getting curiouser and curiouser. No, not in her Wonderland though. It is in our wonderful land where the tragi-comedy being played out in a remote-controlled foreign ministry is turning diplomacy into a sick joke. When Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe tried from the turn of this century to make a right to information law and much later with Maithripala Sirisena as president the leadership duo saw it through parliament, the Unity Government hailed it as one of the most important pieces of legislation since it came to power.