Australia thanks SL

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While confirming the departure of Frontline Socialist Party’s leader Kumar Gunaratnam’s from Sri Lanka, the Australian authorities today thanked the police and other agencies in Sri Lanka for facilitating his departure.

A spokesman for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Daily Mirror that the person who went missing in Kiribathgoda, Sri Lanka is safe.
“We can confirm a 42 year old man from New South Wales who was reported missing in the region of Kiribathgoda, Sri Lanka is safe and well.

The Australian High Commissioner in Colombo escorted the man to the airport and confirmed his departure from Sri Lanka. Australian authorities have thanked the police and other agencies in Sri Lanka for facilitating the man’s departure from Sri Lanka,” the spokesman said.Also, he said that Consular Officers in Canberra had been liaising with the man’s family in Australia.

“The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is unable provide any further information on this matter due to our privacy obligations to our consular client,” he said. (Kelum Bandara)

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Comments - 19

Noel Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:37 PM

Thank you Australia and Australian Embassy for your generous, kind,and unending support given to release the two white van victims from near death trap. Your concern and sympathy for valuing human life for your expatriate citizens say it all. I wish I would have born in Australia. Maybe in the next life. By forcibly deporting their own citizen tells the GOSL standing on their own citizen. Nothing but power hungry.Thank you again

mimsy Wednesday, 11 April 2012 09:11 AM

Hope you did not hear the news, the needle-in-the-body was not the making of her employer, but by herself, mental disease.

TMA Wednesday, 11 April 2012 08:40 AM

What a dumb comment.

Ranil Wednesday, 11 April 2012 07:35 AM

Yes it is good that all Europian countries should inform their terorist citizens not to visit SL, in order to live people in SL to live peacefully.

sltk2004 Wednesday, 11 April 2012 06:29 AM

Are you kidding?

I don know why Wednesday, 11 April 2012 02:38 AM

Privacy obligations or white wash a criminal act? One Gunarathnam disappears and one Mudalige is found. How is it possible to activate mechanism of accountability.

Mifaz Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:57 AM

I want to be a citizen of Australia or any western country

A kumar Wednesday, 11 April 2012 02:09 AM

Man had 3 other names and was he really missing? His aussie name is mudalige?? This is nothing but a big circus.

Sam Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:42 PM

Why the Australia so keen on him? Why he was not punished for breaking laws? How come Australia did not know the name of the missing person at all? Why they blame SL government instead of JVP, UNP or any other party? Is this another foreign conspiracy of NGO or westerners to bash SL government?

Godaya Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:49 PM

An Australian without a name ??? Until yesterday Australian HC talked about a man named Premakumaran Gunarathnam. Now they tell about a man without a name. What happened to Gunarathnam? Is he still missing. Is tha SriLankan government accountable for his disappearance? Law of privacy applied to this man with no name but not to Gunarathnam? Was he in a illegal underground mission?

aj Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:39 AM

Great Aussies ... Real Statue. Poor Lanka.

mohan Tuesday, 10 April 2012 08:08 PM

yep , Western diplomat don't speak on media like sri lankan do , we will see rel reaction very soon

citizen1 Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:22 PM

What a joke. How mny housemaids have returned with pins and needles in their bodies or in a coffin? What about the hundreds camping inside embassies abroad?

Balu Dandara Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:02 PM

You poor Colombian.
By the way what is this statue (pilimaya) you are talking of ? You grandfather's ?

sanjeev Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:57 AM

Western Very poliet Game!!!

ravi Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:42 AM

Thanks for the effort of Australian Embassies our embassy in middle east learn to safe guard our people like this All Europe country should inform your citizens not to visit Sr Lanka to avoid such incidents..

Siril Tuesday, 10 April 2012 11:10 AM

Thank you Australia and Australian Embassy in Sri Lanka for saving two lives from evils.

j Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:55 AM

SL also takes care of their Citizen who is in abroad in same manner.

buffaloa citizen Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:32 AM

Australia, are you thanking Sri Lankan authorities for releasing the person alive?

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