September 30, 2011,
By Shamindra Ferdinando
The government has accused Canada of appeasing the Tamil vote bank at the expense of Sri Lanka as diplomatic relations between the two countries hit a new low.
Authoritative sources told The Island that Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird had targeted Sri Lanka at the UNGA in New York on Sept. 26 following an abortive Canadian initiative to formalize during the September HRC Sessions in Geneva "an interactive dialogue on the LLRC process in Sri Lanka at the March 2012 Session of the HRC." Full Story>>>
