President Returns

27 January 2011 05:16 am

President Mahinda Rajapaksa returned to the island early this morning after a private visit to the United States. When the Daily Mirror inquired from the President’s spokesperson Bandula Jayasekera he confirmed that the President had retuned after a week long stay in the US.

Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris, who accompanied the President to the US, also returned to the island last evening, according to External Affairs Ministry sources.

The UNP had earlier demanded that the Government reveal the truth behind the President’s mysterious visit to the US.  (DS)