Sri Lanka’s defence minister reiterated that security in the country was not under threat and that not a single army camp has been removed from the North-East, in a statement issued on Wednesday.
“The President, the Prime Minister and I have placed utmost diligence in ensuring and furthering national security,” said State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene. “There is not an iota of truth in the notion that national security is in danger,” he added. “Every person who is promoting such notions in doing so with ulterior political motives”.
The minister went on to state “the government’s foreign policy is aimed at strategically dismantling the terrorist networks world over and the fact that the LTTE ban has been extended in certain countries is an example of the dividends of this strategy.”
His remarks come after Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe told the Sri Lankan parliament that military camps have not been withdrawn from the North-East of the island.
See our earlier posts:
‘Military camps in North-East have not been withdrawn’ confirms Sri Lankan PM (24 Jun 2015)
UNP capable of ‘stopping terrorists’ declares minister (22 Jun 2015)
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