Sri Lankas Post Conflict Agenda to empower our people: Minister Bogollagama

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, who is on an official visit to China, addressed a gathering of over 100 diplomats, leading think tanks, research organizations and media personnel at the prestigious China Institute for International Studies on Post Conflict Sri Lanka and the way forward on July 2nd.

The Minister gave a comprehensive account of the negotiations held with the LTTE commencing from 1985 Timpu talks until military engagement was necessary for humanitarian reasons to save over 280,000 internally displaced people who were taken hostage by the LTTE, which finally led to the defeat of terrorism. The Minister reiterated that the firm commitment demonstrated by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the armed forces to defeat terrorism have brought about a feeling of freedom for everybody in the country and now with the vibrant democratic structure a new era would be ushered in for an inclusive process of political development with equitable distribution of resources for economic empowerment and social stability of all communities. The Foreign Minister emphasized that the right to counter terrorism was a prerogative of any sovereign state and the humanitarian interventions that had to be carried out were based on a zero civilian casualty regime that had been strictly administered by the present Government.

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