He praised the government for not letting the UN to establish a field office in Sri Lanka and criticized the UNP Leadership for supporting the United Nations to accomplish ‘their hidden agendas’.

“They are trying to reduce our country to another Kosovo” said Mr. Weerawansa. “The ongoing war has largely contributed to the survival of the Rajapaksa government. People protest but they are patiently looking at the next step the government is going to take”, he said.

While noting that UNP has no moral right to talk about human rights violations, Mr. Weerawansa said: “They are now talking about human rights violations because I think they cannot remember what they did in the late 1980’s and I think Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe cannot remember what he did in Batalanda”.He charged that Ms Arbour was a staunch ally of America and so was the UNP.The recent remarks by UNP Parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella that there should be a UN monitoring office, he said, showed that not only Mr. Kiriella but the entire UNP was catering to the needs of the UN.

There is speculation, he said, that another UN delegate was expected here to report on the displaced people in the Northern and Eastern Provinces Mr. Weerawansa said . “The only displaced person in the country is former President Chandrika Kumaratunga. There are several thousand Muslims too in the country who have been chased away from the north by the LTTE and are now displaced”.

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