SL minister can't understand UK FCO travel update

by admin
Aug 18, 2012

Sri Lanka announced that it would be contesting the British Foreign Commonwealth Office's updated travel advice, warning Britons of an upsurge in nationalism, sexual offences and anti-western rhetoric.

With the burning of Union Jacks and the barracading of UN offices all but a distant memory, the Secretary of External Affairs Ministry Karunathilaka Amunugama was shocked by the updated advice.

Taking it with the "utmost seriousness" particularly due to the tone and timing, Amunugama said that he would like to know exactly how the UK came to this conclusion and had assigned the High Commissioner, Chris Nonis, to discuss the issue with the FCO.

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