Friday, May 1, 2009

Lanka launches angry attack on Miliband

(DM)Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has launched an angry verbal attack on Britain's foreign secretary David Miliband, accusing him of basing his policy on LTTE propaganda and saying his recent visit was a "waste of time".

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the president's brother raged at the co-ordinated pressure being put on his government by the international community and singled out this week's visit of Mr Miliband and Bernard Kouchner, his French counterpart, as a "waste of time". Full text