External Affairs Minister G L Peiris has rushed to London in the hope of lobbying the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to revise its latest travel advisory, reports Colombo Page.
Despite protestations from Peiris against the advisory which warns of an upsurge in nationalism, sexual offences and anti-Western rhetoric, the FCO extended the advisory following the conviction of French tourists for offending Buddhist sentiment.
An official meeting has not been confirmed but Peiris hopes to ‘discuss’ the advisory and the issues it raises with his British counterparts.
This is not the first time Peiris has challenged a British statement on Sri Lanka, although the Minister’s will presumably adopt a very different to tone to his earlier ‘summoning’ of the British High Commissioner to Colombo.
