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Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s effort to persuade US senate to drop the proposed ban on military supplies failed

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Monday, 08 October 2007
Act for 2008 which prevents the sale and supply of military equipment to the country has failed. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama failed in his efforts last week to persuade the US Senate to withdraw the provision in the Appropriations Act for 2008 preventing the sale and supply of military equipment to Sri Lanka.

The provision states that all military supplies and training to Sri Lanka will be suspended until the US Secretary of State gives a clean bill of health on the Sri Lankan human rights situation. Reports say that Bogollamgama’s efforts to persuade the Chairman of the US Foreign Relations Committee Senator Leahy to drop of Section 690 of the Act but failed.

The US senator has reportedly told the Sri Lankan minister that the senate can consider the withdrawal of provision only when Sri Lanka takes concrete actions against rights violations. The US administration has also reiterated its displeasure over the Sri Lankan government’s lack of progress in presenting a power sharing proposal to the ethnic conflict during the meeting between Bogollagama and US undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns.

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