In office only a week, the new foreign minister of Chile, Heraldo Muñoz, is already signaling the intention of the government of Socialist president Michelle Batchelet to weaken the pro-free-market Pacific Alliance in favor of its more statist competitor, Mercosur.
Posted on February 20th, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala
The increasing interventionist role of the UN and its agencies,
mainly the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in the domestic affairs of Sri
Lanka, seen especially in the unwarranted excesses listed in the latest
Michelle Bachelet’s report, threatening, for instance, to report Sri Lanka to
ICJ, should come under unrelenting scrutiny to expose its (1)
disproportionate
scrutiny and intervention in the domestic affairs particularly when M.
A. Sumanthiran says that progress has been made though not to their
satisfaction; (2)
partisan selectivity manipulated by
pro-Tamil/LTTE agents abroad, including TNA, NGOs, INGOs, etc. (All these
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