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by Kumar David
Why is there uncertainty, even at this late stage, about the stand India will take on the Human Rights resolution on Sri Lanka’s long ended civil war and overlapping allegations that the current regime harbours authoritarian ambitions? India’s silence is both curious and significant. There are three substantive players in the game in Geneva. Team 1 is the core group (UK, Canada, Germany and three other ninnies) supported by the new US Administration; they work as a unit. Team 2 is China; the only other important team member is Russia. Team 3 is India and India alone, an important outlier. Everyone else (there are 47 voting members on the Council) is small change led by the nose by one or other of the big teams and this goes for the Muslim states and Pakistan. America-Europe or China, Teams 1 or 2, will tell them what to do, and these nobodies will docilely follow – give or take some mild concern among Muslim states about the plight of fellow Sri Lankan Sons of t
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Posted on March 11th, 2021
By Uditha Devapriya/Ceylon Today Courtesy NewsIn.Asia
Colombo, March 11: Partly in spite of and partly because of the political leadership, Sri Lanka never got to evolve a foreign policy of its own in the first ten years of its independent statehood. Scholars are divided on why exactly this was so, with some pointing at the indifference of the first two UNP regimes to the country’s external relations and others arguing there was no need for the country to think about external relations just yet.
However, it must be borne in mind that far from feigning indifference, the first two Prime Ministers – D. S. Senanayake and Dudley Senanayake – placed special emphasis on the issue of foreign policy in their opening addresses to the nation. One can argue that these statements lacked depth and solidity, and that they were couched in vague abstractions which were never translated into action. But this is different from saying tha
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