( March 19, 2015, Montreal, Sri Lanka Guardian) In the Daily News of 17 March there was an absolutely startling statement : “The Colombo Port City project has run into a fresh snag with Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority pointing out to the government that the air space over the Chinese held area will exclusively be held by China…the Civil Aviation Authority’s argument has sent shock waves through the new government as to how the previous government had entered into an agreement with China without scrutinizing the Convention and the Civil Aviation Act”.
by Ruwantissa Abeyratne