Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Sri Lanka under fire over PR firm Bell Pottinger speech

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President Rajapaksa addressing the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2010
Bell Pottinger representative Tim Ryan (right) meets Vickramabahu Karunaratne, general secretary of the NSS Party at a north London meeting in November 2010 President Rajapaksa's UN speech was allegedly ghost-written by Bell Pottinger
In a report on Tuesday, the Independent quoted a Bell Pottinger company spokesman as saying it wrote a speech the president gave to the UN in 2010.
The spokesman is quoted as saying the speech was "very well received".

Bell Pottinger has so far not commented on the contents of the Independent's report.
Bell Pottinger staff attended a meetings of expatriate Tamils in London last year