Sri Lanka’s "insecure, reactionary and muddled thinking,” does not do justice to the Sinhalese race’s great and long history, nor does it do justice to the gentle, compassionate and moderate majority of this country, said Sri Lanka’s foreign affairs minister Mangala Samaraweera.
Highlighting rejections of proposals for a bridge between the Tamil North-East of Sri Lanka and the South of India and further trade agreements , he added,
“Whenever a bridge over the Palk Straits to connect our two nations is proposed, they get into a paranoid frenzy that all of India is waiting drive over that bridge and make Sri Lanka their home, when trade agreements are discussed they see swarms of Indian doctors and barbers coming across to flood the Sri Lankan market. Now they claim that their IT specialists are all waiting to come and take the jobs of Sri Lankan engineers. "
Speaking at the India-Sri Lanka Society In Colombo, Mr Samaraweera stressed that the proposed Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement the country will build on the Free Trade Agreement to put in place a rules-based framework of services trade.
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Highlighting rejections of proposals for a bridge between the Tamil North-East of Sri Lanka and the South of India and further trade agreements , he added,
“Whenever a bridge over the Palk Straits to connect our two nations is proposed, they get into a paranoid frenzy that all of India is waiting drive over that bridge and make Sri Lanka their home, when trade agreements are discussed they see swarms of Indian doctors and barbers coming across to flood the Sri Lankan market. Now they claim that their IT specialists are all waiting to come and take the jobs of Sri Lankan engineers. "
Speaking at the India-Sri Lanka Society In Colombo, Mr Samaraweera stressed that the proposed Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement the country will build on the Free Trade Agreement to put in place a rules-based framework of services trade.
Sri Lanka’s Indophobia (07 Aug 2015)
Sri Lankan government ‘not interested’ in bridge to India states Minister (31 Dec 2015)