Friday, May 1, 2009

Lanka should be on UN SC agenda- Miliband

(DM)British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, in an interview with the BBC following his visit to Sri Lanka, said that Sri Lanka should be on the UN Security Council agenda for which UK, France and the US are pushing for as the war has regional and wider ramifications. Miliband said the so called safe zone is not safe at all because that’s where the conflict has been ongoing. While the Sri Lankan Defence Secretary confirmed there will be absolutely no more heavy shelling in the zone Miliband said it’s a stop to the fighting that the European Union and the G8 have been calling for. Full text