WikiLeaks: If CBK Wants Others To Treat Her With Respect, She Also Has To Treat Them Properly: Ranil
December 30, 2013
“The PM said that he thought that the President was really concerned
about what happened to her when her present term ended. The Ambassador
said he believed that was correct, but that there was an additional
factor. From his conversations with the President, he said, he believed
the underlying motivation for her actions was to send a message that she
would not be treated in the last two years of her Presidency as she was
in the preceding two years. PM accepted this, but said that if she
wanted Ministers to treat her with respect, she also had to treat them
properly.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.
The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The classified diplomatic cable details a meeting the US ambassador had with then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The “Confidential” is cable signed by the US Ambassador to Colombo Jeffrey J. Lunstead on January 12, 2004.
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