Rejecting comments made by the US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Biswal, following her visit to Colombo and Jaffna, the Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister G. L. Peiris allegedly said,
“Her observations are indicative of a mindset that solely wants to believe the worst and enthusiastically leaps to conclusions based on tendentious claims,”
“The treatment of Sri Lanka (by the US) is highly selective and patently unfair.”