Central Bank usurps Cabinet powers in bid to change US policy
By Our Political Editor-Sunday, August 17, 2014
The UPFA Government’s saga of hiring more PR agencies in the United States to lobby and win over President Barrack Obama’s administration continues. Paradoxically, this is whilst being engaged domestically in a bitter war of words with the US.
Just this week, the External Affairs Ministry (EAM) issued a strange news release with the heading “Examine root cause for US perception of anti-Western sentiment”. It alluded to the security message given to US citizens by the US Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security following a demonstration opposite the US embassy in Colombo protesting Israeli military operations in Gaza.
