Parliamentarians from the United National Party dismissed claims there were conditions attached to Sri Lanka regaining GSP+ and asserted what they described as "Sri Lanka's 2500 year old Buddhist culture" was "non-negotiable for whatever reasons".
"Legalising homosexuality or any other step which diluted Sri Lanka's rich culture would never happen," UNP MPs Harshana Rajakaruna and Wijepala Hettiarachchi were quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying at a media briefing on Friday.
"The division of the country was also out of the question and that the government had not agreed to any condition that would lead to the division of the country," Mr Rajakurana reportedly added.
“The European Union had only requested that Sri Lanka ratify and implement 27 international conventions, to which the successive governments had agreed to in the past,” he added.