Foreign policy a gamble: Lanka’s future like a horse race
By Our Political Editor-Sunday, July 14, 2013
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After a lengthy discussion, President Mahinda Rajapaksa and visiting Indian National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon had still more to say to each other as they came out of a chamber at President's House. Picture courtesy Lankadeepa
President Mahinda Rajapaksa engaged in some light-hearted banter at Thursday’s weekly meeting of Cabinet ministers.
He told them he had heard that Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe had told India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon during talks in Colombo this week that the United National Party (UNP) would do everything within its means to prevent any changes to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. From the account he had heard, he said, Menon had replied that “you are doing what we should do.” Rajapaksa said laughingly that if people got to know what Wickremesinghe had said, it would be counterproductive to both him and his party.
