Back Lanka says China

15 August 2010 07:05 am

China says Sri Lanka should receive the support of the international community in achieving its objectives having rid itself of terrorism and embarked on the course of accelerated economic development.

China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi, told visiting Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris in Beijing that China, for her part, would make the maximum effort to fulfil Sri Lanka’s needs as the country addresses itself to the task of attempting to use its natural strengths to improve the lives of its citizens, with the dawn of peace and stability. 

“Countries big and small have their own problems, and it is important to remember that solutions have to be found to suit the circumstances of each situation in keeping with the wishes of the country in question without hectoring or pressure from outside,” the External Affairs Ministry today quoted the Chinese Foreign Minister as saying.

Minister Peiris informed China’s Foreign Minister that the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa had held its first public sitting on the previous day and commenced its work.

It is of the utmost importance that the Commission should receive every encouragement from the international community to begin and continue its work, Minister Peiris observed.

Meanwhile in an address delivered to the China Institute of International Studies, which was attended by leading members of the diplomatic community and representatives of local as well as international media in Beijing, Prof. Peiris explained Sri Lanka’s experience in defeating terrorism and putting the country on the fast track of economic development and national reconciliation. (Daily Mirror online)