How the Foreign Office makes decisions
06/02/2014
Britain's Foreign Office has had a puzzling policy towards Sri Lanka in recent years. At times it has been downright terrible:selling arms to Sri Lanka and denying the clear evidence of torture by Sri Lankan security forces. At other times it has been a deal better, most notably in the recent welcome announcement from David Cameron that they would pursue an Independent International Investigation in Sri Lanka. Overall the impression has been of a lack of coherence, with different sections of the civil service pursuing different policies and the politicians, for the most part, only taking an interest when the public demand that they do.
