Tuesday, 22nd July 2014
Gone are the days when one or two countries can gang up against an individual country and go for punitive resolutions.These resolutions and the idea of sanctions do not work -- they have become counterproductive as we have seen in the case of India’s second nuclear explosion and in the cases of Iran and Myanmar
From page 1 “We strongly feel that foreign policy should not be i nterfered with by state governments. They can advise but not influence the outcome,” he said.
Dr. Chari who is visiting Sri Lanka to participate in a panel discussion on ‘India under Modi’ organised by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies said although political parties i n Tamil Nadu formerly used their political clout to pressure the Central government on foreign policy matters, the Modi government because of its strong position would not depend on any regional party.
He said they believed that the crises between Colombo and its Tamil population were an internal matter and was convinced that these issues could be best solved between New Delhi and Colombo instead of internationalising the process.
Dr. Chari said he strongly believed that both India and Sri Lanka should work together to resolve the issue and collaborate with each other to get the resolution on Sri Lanka completely withdrawn.
“Gone are the days when one or two countries can gang up against an individual country and go for punitive resolutions. These resolutions and the idea of sanctions do not work -- they have become counterproductive as we have seen in the case of India’s second nuclear explosion and in the cases of Iran and Myanmar,” he added.
Dr. Chari said unless answers to the questions of who decided the failure to address concerns of human rights and the best methodology to address the issue; one or two countries however powerful they may, could not be allowed to dabble in the internal affairs of any other country.
He said meanwhile India also expected Sri Lanka t o deliver on the concerns raised by the Tamil population.
From : http://epaper.dailymirror.lk/epaper/viewer.aspx
