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Why did the Commissioner of Elections and his officials take almost four years to prepare a report or the December 1982 refererIdur71 dI rId H*hy did rhey decide to release this report, и"hich is in fлалу идуs (т darллілg indictment, at this particular to: Frie Fir? UNP" ers are str Tirred ; The the SLFP and the other opposition parties are overjoyed but terrain puzzled. The U.N. P. Feaction car only be described in the pirarse nos cosely 755 ocía red With National Security Mir ister Laith Athlathritidali as a "deafering silence". The long delay is explained by the Commissioner who points, out the difference ђетиеет 4 ретігіолs filed agaiлуг sarı election in a single constit Lercy ar 7 ad agar frif a referer de VP7.
TMVhaI tey'er the rea7,5ori, i! rook Corfrage, Land Corfirmissioner Chandrartanda de Silva and Pris staff have dealt a well-fired blои то ће и'taеšpread popular belief til ar the independer ce a rad integrity of Sri Lanka's public service was a relic of the past. The publication of the report had a pleasing touch of irony, too.
Earlie" ir Pie preek Fira Pice Minister Ronnie de Mel, for Farly years an able civil serva. It himself, had lamented the conரiruot abserce ஆf independent, αη αντίται τηiηiς η α τομη ιrν which he said was full of stooges атd sycophants.
At a conference sponsored by the new Institute of Policy Studies he recoiled a personal experience. “My Efforts ir 1973 fo ser Lup a fhirik-farik did not frá Trerialise. I got rogether a ser of well known people to undertake
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FOREGIN PO TO THE FOR
Mervyn de Silva
fter July 1983, Sri Lanka's which always had an external aspect, was dramatically externalised -Tamilmiadu and India, the Tamil diaspora and the pro-Eelam propaganda drive, the Aid-Group, World Bank and IMF, the world press, the NGO's and the Human Rights groups; U.S., U.K., and other sources of security assistance and
Cath nic issue,
Pakistan and Israel
arms supplies.
Muslims Tamils
(Mr. Haleem Ishak)
I feel that after the Israelis want into the Eastern Province they created the rift between the Muslims and the Ta Tiilis there, They will not only LLLLLL L LLLLLLH aLL aLLLLL LtLL the Tamils, I assure this House today, Sir, but they will create rifts given LL LLLL LL LLLLLL LLL LLLLL aLLLLLLL Twin in the same villages allower the COUTIET.
A Member)
is that your opinion or the opinion
of the party?
(Mr. Anura Bandaran aike)
That is the opinion of the Sri Lanka.
Freedom Party.
A Member)
Ut terly irresponsible stili terment.
Mr. Anura Bandara naike)
That Is your view. 1 gave the wiew of the SLEP. Irresponsible Never had the Muslims fought the Tamils befor.
(Mr. M. Haleem Ishak)
Never had the Muslims fought the This before,
Mr. Anura Bandaran aike)
For the first time this happened.
| HMF NM. Haleem Ishak)
The Muslims disagree with Tamils on E = ques in the di wis in Of this
EFT. A nu ra Bandaranalike) Never had they fought before:
What We ha past weeks is the externi factor as an If not the do the Sri Lankami i could see this clearly but the Affairs, a Mus the two situat need soTie a III to use (inter you made use why did you time. . . it is Mr Haleed to concluding his Foreign Ministr budget debate,
In a cle wer defensiya mano these two st zog Wilsit and on the Falkland were the only the Oppositior debating point: indeed an unit sition because
policy had plac tha hLimble CC and Oman by
and against Arg CV DIO The E. tain's Closest all lands shot was Ellow. Mr. Banda ston Leader, of it but only government.
It was the mattered, and seasoned politici is reported to his | + 5hrewyd moye" BandataTake"5 || WI5 it to Wind", whose position had alerated it minority - the וסinוח tחrtaסקוח1 Not only the The Te Wa5 the

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We witnessed in the the emergence of
or foreign policy qually important, minant, factor in
equation. Who else sudden change so Minister of Foreign |Tı ? "“You seized ioms - because you munition you had ruption) Yes. So of the situation. . . say its my bad my good time". ld the Opposition, speech on the vote during the (Nov. 28).
but essentially evre, he said that ations - the Herha Sri Lanka wote Is at the UN -- two "issues" which could pick as 5. Falklands was ion for the Oppothe UNP's foreign e Sri Laka i mpany of Belize voting with Britain gentina, backed by iers, including Briies - But the Falk - hardly a wounding ranaike, the Oppomade maximum lise
to ridicula the
ther situation that Mr. Hameed, a a knew this. He ive told a colleague - meaning Mr.
se of the Herzog
Per for al SLFP. om the ethnic issue he island's biggest Tamils, the other ity, the Muslims. usins, however. Externa i CC
BACKGROUND)
sideration - India most of all where bridges damaged during
the Chidambarar visit had to El prepaired; the Arabs and the non
aligned; specially the nonaligned radicas With Whom the SLFP ha 5 always had much warmer ties than the UNP. Indeed the UNP, on the Herzog wist, found its elf in the company of its one-time idol and mentor, Lee Kwan YCW's Singapore. And Singapore in turn had roused the inte of its Ewo Muslim neighbours, Malaysia and Indonesia. (See Herzog visit draws Wrath...')
Since the whole of Huiftsdorp knows about it, the much better informed Mr. Bandaranaike must have been privy to the tough talking that Mr. Na twar Singh did when Mr. Rajiv Gandhi's two Ministers of State (the other was Mr. P. Chidambaram) met President JR., Messrs Athu lath mudali Gamin Dissanayake and Hameed, and the government's top legal advisers. The tough "hope-you-are-prepared -to-take-the-Consequences" passage had nothing to do with devoution, corridors, or even the Tamils. It was exclusivel y confined to Sri Lanka's foreign relations, particularly Israel and Pakistan, and its implications for Indian regional policy and national security concerns.
The only other equally strong exchange was over the military optioп.
Despite the respectful clasped hands in oriental salutation to
the Wise, experienced, senior statesman of S.A.A.R.C., the Sri Lankan President, Mr. Natwar Singh's words conveyed nothing less than the clearest warning that Delhi has yet given to
Colombo on the latter's foreign Policy course.
And this mind you was before the Gorbachey wis it which was

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described by INDIA TODAY as "The Second Honeymoon'. There isn't the slightest doubt that the firm foundations of Indo-Soyiet frie fidship were not only reinforced but that the Soviet leader fully endorsed India's nomalignment and backed Indian regional policy to the hilt, just as much as India expressed its full support to the Sowiet wiew or the funda Tental problems of War, peace and disarmament. With that very special relationship strengthened, Indian foreign policy in the area will speak with an even more self -Confident and assertive voice. Almost the exact opposite is true of the Reagan administration, a lane duck presidency now a dead duck as a US courist noted.
The weakness currently evident in the US administration Wi || Tot only affect the projection of US power but is bound to affect US al lles in the region, notably Pakis
t3n and Sri Larıka.
WH en Mr. Bandaranaike chlose to make Israel the in thrust
of his anti-UNP thus exploiting Weakness both a nal.
The appeal to munity comes at the situation in Wine and Mus! that region, in the government three provincial Tam demand fr: kage, are the si debate among M this perspective of a new "inde party, the Sri L: gress, should be: וח - uch Inוח Very leadership is obvi sentative of thi Musim5 of the Sinhala-speaking Muslim political Wester Seaboari rejection of the plea for partici ,'liticsס1pחstrea CONGRESS). Thị Mr. Ashraf has
It Is thic Tschemaker Wholare Erying to mis-read the true intenLLLHLH S aLLL aa S LLLLLL S LLLLLLL S LL S S :* political party for the Mus
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onslaught, he was perceived UNP External di ECT
the Muslim coa time when the eastern pro
tt the context of 's proposal for councils and the or orth-east li nbject of intense u515. It is in that the advent pendent' political kā 5 ir C: viewed, bearing ld that the SLMC ously more repre2 Ta Tni l-speaking eä5t thãm Cf the busine 55-oriented
e||te of the d. It is a total traditional Muslim בחalוח" חן וחסatiג . (See MUSLIM a SLMC president, now called for a
separat e Muslim P. C., and for Tamil to be made an official language, and both Sinhala and Trini to be made compulsory.
While the position of the Tamilspeaking Muslims of the east has been a special problem, the pressure of the physical situation in the prowince 臀 armed conflict) and the pressure of the all-important Government-Tamil negotiations on the future of that Prowice, have combined to make the challenge facing this community especially urgent. But there's yet another issue which has surfaced recently to Cause agitated Concern Within the entire Muslim community and in fact to put the Muslim elitë on a Confrontation course with the government. I refer of cours to the government-appointed Committee on "Personal Laws". (See Muslims Defend Sharia, L. G. Nov. 15). Although the government is not talking about it, and the press has almost ignored the issue, the Muslim community is quite disturEad.
Padlocked Mouths
his are padlocked | political parties, lative but to get E irid 3:set OUT
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friendly with the a EHB Tarns. We
Tassadors of Siri Hallege and the SI h3IE 5 ta gor T.rTı I Is ta u li tal
LHEr 5W sind, a community wish El lice.
It is in hich gravely affects Muslim com Ti Lunity O''III.E. 'E |
ILI Lior Which WIII litical strength of lice Muslims,
yr ar 5 Hugh a proposal which assings Dr. co-opeIirim Community w III Scal UE i Eo Teste
try, Hence the thu Sri LankaП
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LLLLLC S HHHL K LLLHH CCH HLHHL recognizing and respecting the diversifying and distinguishing factors.
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The basis of the identity of the Muslim corini Lunity" is the di Wine serisc which is found in the Holy Quran and the Teachings of the Prophet, LOLLL L Z LS LLL LLLL CLH LL LLLLLHHLLLLLLLSLLL are identified linguistically. Hence we should realize the Importance of preserving this identifying factor na mely the Shariat Law. It is ea Lir LtHLHHL S aaa S LLL H HHLLLLLLLS LLLLL religious beliefs. If this all important foundation of the Muslim community is tam pered With we should realize that the muslim community would son los e its Identity.

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Herzog visit draws wi Singapore's neighbours
Greer Fay Cashman Jerusalem Post Correspondent
SINGAPORE
Mo# will review its ties With Singapore following public protests over the wisit
here by President Chaim Herzog, the Singapore newspaper. The Straits Times reperted yesterday, Malaysia has officially informed Singapore of its deep regret over the republic's "provocative" action in extending an invitation to Herzog.
Herzog, who arrived here on Tuesday for a three-day visit, rebuked Malaysia and Indonesia yesterday for attacking Singapore, Saying that date. He advised them not to interfere in a matter that did not concern them.
Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta hawe assailed Singapore's alleged lack of sensitivity towards its Moslem neighbours, terming Singapore's action provocative.
Approximately 200 demonstrators under the banner of the People's Action Committee representing 30 political part les and social organizations gathered in front of the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur to protest against the Herzog visit. The demonstrators accused Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of being a Zionist agent.
Indonesia recalled her amba55ador on the day of Herzog's arrival.
Herzog told a Press conference that the Wi51L of a head of State of one sovereign country to another was 'the business of those countrics and those countries Siwely.
exclu
Hai Stre552d there was no conflict between Jews and Mosers. Wisits by Israeli leaders to Arab countries such as Morocco and Egypt had caused no such fuss in the Middle East, he said, and added: "Frankly, I'm at a loss. ... I have a feeling that some people are out of date in this part of the world."
they were out of
Malaysia and in wis it could disru the Association of Nations (Asean), political alliance nesia, Malaysia, Th pines, Singapore
Hundreds of Ma day tried to 5 to ar O55 - Tha CaLISEW pore and Malaysia Herzog's visit.
Herzog was o visit the Philippin ling to Singa POTE was cancelled at because of the Manila.
Singapore tight an extent that Herzog's en tourag siwe Security me: of Herzog's par at the Herzo attend. Special id munity - Aוח1 סח bodyguard has b Mrs. Herzog.
Herzog told th has been tremen by Singapore's ei ment. Israel ha: from this Island r
The most sig which Singapore || is the cutting of La pe for potentia tors who instead from office to of in Israel, deal only
Herzog was re men on his Lalk YEW HE 5 d. i objections to hil! the nature of "BLE I don't fee what took part."
Herzog, who de Yew as "the Ben ore' found him well-infor Ted ab premier told He

rath of
dores la said the it the unity of South-East Asian an economic and Comprising Indoailand, the Philipäld Brung.
laysians on Tuesв а “peace run". ay linking Singain protest against
iginally due to es before Lawel2, but his trip the last moment Lir Ent L'OSC in
ened security to surprised ewen e, used to intensures. Members ty are searched g functions they entity tags afford special female een assigned to
he press that he dously impressed onomic develop5 much to ea Tri epublic, he said.
nificant example as set for Israel bureaucratic red | clawer seā5 i Wesof being shunted fice as they are with one person.
luctant to co5 with Lea KLIT that he had lo 5 host divulging helirt discussion5 | free to few ed II
scribed Lee Kuan --Gurion of Singa
to be extremely out Israel. The rzog that he had
NEWS BACKGROUND
earned a lot from Israel and in the building up of Singapore, had not repeated Israel's development E "TOTS
Herzog heads for home today and is due to arrive early tomorrow .Eח1חrסוח
In Jerusalem it was reported y esterday tha E M K Pinhas Goldsten Wants tha Krie255 et to debata al|| the arrangements surrounding the president's visit to the Far East. What happened in Singapore and the last-minute cancellation of the visit to the Philippines does not rebound to the credit of the office of the presidency or the state, Goldstein told The Jerusalem Post last night.
Goldstein, a Likud-Liberal, scored the Way the president's wis it was organized. "It's a matter of timing and location. Perhaps he shouldn't hawe gone to the countries chosen just at this time. The treatment meted out to him shames him and us," Goldstein said.
Letters. . .
(Continued from pாge I)
should also give your readers 5ome inkling as to the composition of this body locally and internationally. For twenty years the London Director of this society was one Mr. Roebuch who was an important member of the Australian Communist Party, the President of which Mr. Sean McBride was crowned With the Len Prize - Lenin, that great 'democrat" who anni hilated two and a Half million of his compatriots only to be equalled by Pol Pot - another great "democrat' - in recent times. No Wonder that the Amnesty International wants to be the guardian of potential Pol Pots of Sri Lanka.
B. A. Aryatilake Matale.
Note: A sitt le Lenin is di dari gertus thing For further information on Pol PoE et pseu se critiet your med rest. Media Čentre of District Development Minister - Ed.

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President appoints 10
While Amnesty International keeps cont there has been no government response to send a U. N. Study Group to Sri Lanka to Widespread allegations, here and abroad, detentions, dissappearances and torture, the Na Minister Lalith Athulathmudali has left for th present the government's case on public p radio. The latest expression of concern Cor all-party Australian parliamentary delegation.
Meanwhile the government has appoint Wijewardene, Director of Human Rights Commi: District Judge of Badulla till last month. He is a member of the 'Organisation for the Promoti Rights through Law Enforcement Agencies." Mt who has participated in many international C "Human Rights' recently prepared a paper of of "Human Rights Law and the Enforcement
Meanwhile President Jayewardene has ap
member Human Rights Commission With Wic examine complaints of human rights violation
Australian MP's call for independant inquiry
The Parliamentary Group of Amnesty International is composed of a large number of parliamentararis drawn from both the Serat 3 and the House of Representatives In Australia who are members of all the political parties represented within the Parliament.
Al members share a deep per goal|| concer for the humani ad political rights of peoples throughout the world, and as fellow Parliamentarians, especially as democratically elected colleagues of ours within the Colonwealth, we know that you share these Concers
We are thus deeply concerned to learn from Amnesty International, and from other independent and reliable sources that it seems that many People in Sri Lanka hawe
disappeared wit
T W II 5 ciyi || 5 trife Eb 35 ett at this time.
We do not wis your domestic af and we extend to sympathy at the country; never the others in calling blish an indepen Investigate these disappearance su establishment of date register fron and lawyers con indiwiduals cole lately obtain rel about the status
55.
In keeping with ples, we expre

member
|plaining that its request to
inquire into of prolonged tional Security le States : tO latforms and The S froT a
2d Mr. Sirial ssion. He Was lso a founderO Of Hua '. Wijewardene onferences on the subject I Agencies".
pointed a tenle powers to S.
hout trace, inof the terrible ing yOLIT COUntry
h to interfera in fairs in any way, you our deepest tro Lublos 5 Your less we join With upon you to estadent inquiry to
cases of alleged pported by the a central, u P. Lo which relatives nected with the ned could immeable information of arrested per
Amnesty's princiis our complete
HUMAN RIGHTS
(Dec. 10th was Human Rights Day)
commission
opposition to the use of violence from WhateWeT SOLI TCe : Or quarter. The use of violence cannot be justified. In free societies disputes and differences, no matter what their origins, should be capable of being solved through Peaceful and
emocratic MCATS.
We as a Parliamentary Group have already Written to your Presdent to make our views known to him, and we now appeal to you to use your good offices and influence to bring a speedy and peacefu resolutionto this matter which is causing so much international
T
We extend to you our personal best wishes and our hopes for the return of peace to your beautiful Country.
ROBERT TICKNER, MP
HARMAN SENATOR CHRIS PUPLICK SECRETARY
L. G. S. U. appeals
to President
The Gen. Secretary of Lanka General Services Union, Mr. J. Maliyagoda has sent the following letter to the Minister of National Security, with a copy to President Jaye Wardele :
We learn that Miss. Pulsara Liyanage Asst. Lecturer Vidya lankara Campus had been arrested and detained from I. I.1.86 without adducing any charges.
The Lanka General Services Union having reasons to believe that this a chain of arrests of those political opponents which act is a challange to the fundamental rights of the people and a ferocious attack on the freedom and democracy of the Country.
Whilst expressling Our Strong protest against the arrest and detaining of Miss. Pulsara Liyanage and urge immediate steps to releaSe hier.

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Activist's Detention
The Indian press and Indian academics have taken up the case of Ms. Pulsara Liyanage, the Kelaniya Uniw, lecturer in western classics who was detained under the P.T. A. on Nov. 5t and is still being held in a Colombo police station. Two dailies, the mass circulation Indian Express and the new Madras daily "Newsday" have published reports on the case, and 沮 number of Indian academics, attached to well known universities and institutes including the prestigious Nehru Univ. in Delhi have sent a letter to the Sri Lankan government via the High Commission in Delhi. The letter states:
"We, the concerned citizens, demand the immediate release of Ms. Pulsara Liyanage, who was
arrested on Now, in Colombo.
MI5. Pulsara 15 Widyalankara Un rights activist of Pulsara was pict home where sh from a major surg W25 on lewe fra We note With Ce orating conditio in Sri Lanka, N people subjected but Sinha esse inti PLI Isara - Who havo speak Out On beh compatriots are illegal detentio
The following the Indian press
Woman Lecturer Held
Ms. Pulsara Nayanie Liyanaga (26), a Woman lecturer of Kelaniya University here, the seat of Buddhist learning in Sri Lanka, has been arrested under Ehe Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).
Political parties, woman's groups and human rights organisations here have already appealed to president J. R. Jayewardene and National Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudal to order the release of Ms. Liyanage on humanitarian grounds, considering her state of health.
Ms. Liyanage is still recovering from a major surgical operation and was om leawe from the Uniwersity when she was taken into custody from her house on Nov. 1.
In a letter to the President. Mr. M. Sellasa my general secretary of the Ceylon Worker's Congress, a partner in the government, has
appealed for his E tion in Ms. Liyan her release on hum
University circ Ms. Liyanage was tage" for a Visit Colom E - Uniwer Sinhales e Inte le underground after Marxists, sympat Cause Were arrest 리g이
Ms. Liyanage is the Worme "5 Tt: for Peace", which demonstrations in ding a negotiated ethnic problem.
rformed sourc Liyanage was inti hours daily by in trained by 'Mossac genCe ageny.
(See pi

|| Lundar the PTA
a lectus leis at the W. and a human
M. I. R. G. E. Ms ked up from her 2 was recovering gical operation and In the university. incern the deterof human rights at only are Tamil to state widence ||Lu|| || k || M. e the courage to af of their Tam||
under threat of and torture".
reports are from
ersonal Interwenage's case and for |anitarian grounds.
les alleged that
being held "hosing lecturer at Ity and a leftist itual, who went * ower 50 Sinha|Esse 1etic to the Tafini :edia few month15
; a li atti Wi5t of
weet "Wole
had held street Colombo dernansettlement of the
as here said Ms. errogated for 2. telligence officials E", Israeli intelli
(Indian Express)
ge T០)
HUMAN RIGHTS
The Political Prisoner
Spend по tears Say по рrayers for the man in the concrete cage True, no glimmer of light beck ons at the end of the long corridor of his 'future' Even a whisper of a tria | Imeyer reaches his ear
True, no Wisitor calls at his moss|lined ce|| to te|| him the time and integer of year Only the gaoler bringing his meagre ration of midowed bis Cuits and Pisslike tea that start uբ բalnfully again his festering ulcer Still, say no prayer Spend no tears for this comrade in the concrete cage He has his honour But for you and who daily strol under the sun with fear-locked tongues
You and | who hawe doшbly pawned Our Wes for lies
You ang | who bicker at the government Yet Pay Our taxes rant against the censor yet subscribe to the national newspaper For you and I, mister Who Walk these city's barren streets in a midday stupor SE Prayers and shed your tears for you and I walk without honour
- Cecil Rajendra
(Malaysia)

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Polis
| th || || —concealed glee the
pro-SLFP fortnightly FORUM, which is not usually a bombscaremonger yelled "Dynamite" It was indeed a bombshell, and the Member for Agalawatte Mr. Anil Moones Inghe handled it with care, to plant it cleverly amidst government benches. And now it's ticking away.
How the SLFP and the Opposition is going to use this report, a serious criticism on the conduct of the 1982 Referendum, the first such exercise at a national level, and the very first poll to be held under emergency regulations, time will show. Already however it is clear that Mrs. Bandaranalike, the SLFP leader, has ir Callised its enor T1 ou 5. Po Ceritial for anti-government Pro Paganda here and a broad.
The potential is all the greater Because the international community is already in a state of maximum alert on the question of human rights in Sri Lanka. What the Commissioner is really saying is that this particular poll does not in fact represent the free and fair exercise of the franchise as we Sri Lankans hawe known it since independence. In fact the phrase "scandalous situaton"" is used at one Point. (lin the Sinhala version, which obviously is the original in the official language, the word used is 'n inditha").
There is a certain moral rightness in Mrs. Bandaranaike's decision to take up the issue as a fundamental question of democracy. By the referendum, the Sri Lankan voter was deprived of his right to elect MP's to parlament jLISE as effectively as the SLFP leader was deprived of her civic rights for the same period of 6 years.
Mrs. Bandaranalike has appointed a top party committee to report om how to make maximum use of this report. Letters are to be sent to all heads of State and government, and Mr. Anura Bandaranaike, in his capacity of Opposition leader, will Write to
Commissioner's
the Commonweal Association, the ers of all parliame The SLFP, with
of the Oppositio sidering a resolu parliament which a full-scale debal
He adds: "The feature of a fre: is the equal opp to the elector it to the candidate The displaying O papers of this precedence.
Some One's Co
". . . The cont displaying of mar at some pol lling : hawe happened il it could not E Conspiracy to di: other possible r
CRISI CONF
The Cumuli such Lunattend Lunattended 2a. Th ason 5 due to tory procedur some people Liewe that the to be forgotter so forgotten, lead to a Cris Election wide may not be alt ted to SGL och le
En 50 me statio 15 w Oter's tHo Tarked b a Contir LIOLIS T displaying of papers in this sed and shi OC because in th in the post one had Wit Scalda Ou55itL the secrecy of been 50 Sal. doubts will Cöl whether the W the degree voting as st law'

Bombshel
th Parliamentary P.U., the Speaknts in the world. the full support
n, is also ConEl 1 0 LITO W1 will result in
te. Excerpt 5:
tחrtaסם וחst Iסm and falt election
rtunity provided IC 35 t. 15 WOt: of his choice,
F marked ballot nature had no
Tand
uous and mass ked ballot papers stations could not by accident...If e ignora 1C e Or splay ther, one eason would hawe
S. M.
DEMICE
tive effect of ed grievances, ongst other relack of satisfacte, or because mistakenly bey are best left but are seldon may otherwise 15 in Confidence. ince at times ogether un rela
E: DWer5.”
of the polling were displaying allot papers in anner . . . . The
marked ballot manner surprisked every One, e elections held 1947 period no nessed such a lation.... When
the Wote has trificed, serious ntinue to remain oter excercised of freedom of ipulated in the
-mm in
been the subjugation to someone's collard.'
"". . .The secrecy of the wote is for the Wery important real Son that the core and substance of an elected body to claim to be truly representative of the people's wish ||ès in the fact the choice exercised by the voter is in fact a free choice."
". . . If the marking on ballot papers Were so exposed one cannot escape the conclusion that the validity of such votes as equal votes - equal as freely marked votes - remain in doubt".
"Secrecy of the vote being the most important ingredient of a free and fair election, its dimuinition leaves a grievance in the electorate regarding the validity of such votes."
Representations Were received on the previous day, says the Commissioner, that Polling Observers appointed to some pol | Ing stations were being instructed to keep off from polling stations 9 the day of the poll for fear of safety.
It is not wrong to conclude that the right of some Polling Observers to be in attendance at a polling station to observe the conduct of the poll had been disturbed."
Allegations had been made about the disturbances at the close of the polis, including instances where, through violent means, the close of the poll had been held up."
Says the Commissioner: "It is
regrettable to note that thE traditional co-operation between the public and the staff including the police who manned the pol| ing station5 Was not awailable or effective in some places."
The Commissioner poses a question: "Why did 12 percent of the voters who voted only two months before at the Presidential Election, abstain from voting at the Referendum 2'. One of the reasons he | Istis as a possibility is: "the atmosphere of disturbance that prevailed."
(Continued on page 27)

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National Developmen
S. N. de S. Seneviratne
O the outskirts of Colombo, at Supugaskanda, the urea Plant which cost over Rs. 27,000 million has ceased productfon a an toill dependant Plant, its days were numbered even as the project
was launched. In the far south. a ten million rupee ginnery stands Idle - the Hamban tota District
does not produce the cotton to feed it. Sinharaja was raped for logging and the Horton Plains multilated to produce seed potatoes - both activities, fortunately, have now been stoped although the damage done is great. An International Winged Bean (Dambala) Institute was established actively promoted by certain influentlal professors. It has since lost its international Image and become a ability Self-sufficiency in various agricultural commodities was promised - seed and consumption Potatoes by the end of 96; wheat, according to an announcement in 1982, soon These promises remain unքսfilled. In so many of our national misadventures and distorting developments, the fate that Would befall them, the da mage that would be done, and the projected goals that would not be achieved were predictable on a sober appraisal of relevant 25 PECES. Knowledgeable persons were con Scious of the pitfalls - some did not speak because it was prudent to remain silent, and the voices that cried out were not heeded. Suspect schemes and projects have Powerful backers who wield great Influence. Advisers and promöters include eminent, qualified persons With their own private ambitions to achieve. Agricultural projects foreign aided schemes, colaboraWe Ventures (with foreign aided foreign Institutions of course), development programmes, sems. nars and workshops, all make news.
A succession of "missions" from foreign agencies and institutions and representatives of foreign entrepreneurs Corne and go, LO
by quickly followed in the reverse direction by local elites and other
* The writer is Plant Pathologist of the Central Agricultural Research Institute at Peradeniya and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka.
miscellaneous ber and horourable i diccisions deter this country, ar. by those on whic advice including
derTis and scie born as independ the inheritor of
assets. A country promise of a bri: in tra wail. Thes is bleiak; dark clo agricultural horiz
Mըanwhile, the
rcle wat in the S ha 5 tot Ecce cca functions of inst assignments of re. ble, dependant c those "In power lities are establis only to be dismat "Celes' are Researchers are secure specialised cease to delwer specialisation. Res are being draine: and Institutions of tion warped to
minds. They are serve the Interest lous tribe of 'fri luxuriate on регі Those regarded a unwilling to ends perceived as flawe to advantage Indi with wested in Eiere dחrei abaיe haוחsg for positions else from suffocating
Temts and tha di Eual a trophy; oth and obstructed an tunities for creatiw men tS, promotion: these are manoeu select company. An before which aggry plead is wanting.
Cain these tren Can the power of r and aggressiwe grc Interests, who do to national develop Can some object into processes of So necessary in the resources of til foreign debts she in to develop her cc

Through Agriculture
Ceficierie 5. Good dividuals, whose ina the fate of
often deceived m they rely for burca Lucrats, a CaLists. Sri Lanka, ent Ceylon, was abundant natura
which had the ght future is now cientific landscape Uds gather on the Ο Π.
course of research, i Lankan context, rly chartered; the tutions and the na Tchers arte Wariain the fancies of "". Rc5earch facied at great cost, tled or run down. pened, still born. trained; after they qualifications, they ntheirardas of earch institutions of their vitality agricultural educaproduce crippled Jeing exploited to is of an unscrupunge dwelers" who is and privileges. is obstacles, those upport to schemes d, as manoeuvred Eviduals or groups sts are wictimised; oned their posts twhere to escape Working environinger of intellecer 5 arte hara 55ed d den ied oppora work. Appointi, scholarships, all Wred to benefit a impartial tribunal ed scientists Could
ds be reversed? mis leading advisers dups with wested immeasurable harm ment be curtailed? vity be brought
decision making 1atters govern ing his country, the curs in the attempt 2ndition, and the
changes that are made which affect the 鞑。 of millions of people of the present generation and of those generations yet unborn? The ministerial i elites, the bureaucrats and the technocrat5 a II seek the Zone5 of influence; they must be princes in their own enclaves, subject to no interference in their decisions. A means most be found so that decision makers will be correctly and adequately informed about all aspects relevant to a particular issue, before firm decissons are made, will draw on the best possible technical opinion in formulation of policies, and will be responsive to reasoned criticisms. Thescience constituency must be cleansed of intrigue. Structures that could inspire confidence and ensure justice are a dire need.
Indeed, the National Science and Technology Policy of Sri Lanka enunciated by President J. R. Jayewardena on 4th December 1978 promised "to involve scientists in the formulation of policy and in decision making at the highest level." In India, when a giant hydro-electric project was conceived for damming the Kuntipuzha riwer, Prime Minister Indra Gandhi set up a committee of scientists to study the effects of the proposed project. They reported that the project, if implemented, Would destroy India's only surviving tropical rain forest called the Silent Walley. Their concerns were respected; their views heeded. The plan was dropped. Perhaps, a similar as 5 essment of our Maha weli Development Project may have spared Patha Dumbara from submergence; the troubles at Kotmale may have been averted. In one unique instance, the intention to release Mahawel land to the UKbased Guthrie Corporation to grow oil palm was fortunately abandoned, a report prepared by a group of competent local scientists having shed much light on aspects which had required serious consideration but which had not received adequate attention.
National development is not the monopoly of politicians or bureaucrats or scientists - or any other group. It is a co-operative effort,
(Continued on page 10)

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MIRGE Activist as "hostage
The arrest of Ms. Pulsara Nayanie Liyanage a Woman lecturer and an activist, of the women's movement women for peace' under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) has sent shock waves through political parties, Women's groups and human rights organisations here,
Several of these organisations have already appealed to President J. R. Jayewardene and National Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudali for the release of 26 years old Ms. Pulsara Nayanie Liyanage on humanitarian grounds, considering her state of health.
Ms. Liyanage is still recovering from a major surgical operation and was on leave from the University when she was taken into custody from her house I November.
issue raised in Parliament
The arrest of Ms. Liyanage, who taught Western classis and is a member of the Movement for Inter-Racial Justice and Equality (MRE), has its echo in parliament, too. When Communist member Dew Gunasekara, calling for her release, pointed out that she was the first educated Sinhala
WOTA LO E for alleged su E
He said she in custody at ter's (where th are allegedly confessions) an been told that Teleased Lunti : Dr. Confessed.
Dinesh. Gun
Mahajana Eksach there were sew had been arrest in custody for out being bro Court of law.
The National strongly den led any "political Lanka. It wou cal "terrorists' M5. Liyanage, h aTTested on ""re: but he would question of her Was a LIIliVerg might not try
In a lotter t M. S. Sellasamy, of the Ceylon W a partner in asked for her - tarian grounds,
National Development . . .
(Continued from page 9)
requiring many insights and diverse skills.
This paper was prepared when suggestions aimed at improving national development were sought by His Excellency the President. 監。 proposals it contains are an attempt to utilise the skills of different types of persons and harmonise the activities of different agencies, involved in the agricultural sector, for an improved national effort in agricultural development.
1. The predicament - impoverishment of our human stock and a moral degradation affecting the residue.
We are facing today the consequences of our failure since independence to give a strong impetus to the development of our nation's self-reliant scientific capa
O
bility, and of t the conditions in competent and 5EI'E OLIT EOL T t. in 5 EU LICMS 2. Ter Widuals for who afG COil Wenent for advancing t estis and for deri fits". In such Wilts. As Pric Knut 55 on Temar mot for men W but for men w heart as well. tably, are a ra institutions.
Ewen now. W view expressed of the Salaries mission, 1974:
"The Santi5 em lent Tole development Wish | tlh | endorse the in his Dissent

aken into custody
SiWe twis.
was being held e CD headquar"d degree methods used to extract
her relations had she would not be le, "broke down"
Wardene of the Peramu na said that aral people who d on suspicion kept a long time withught before the
Security Minister that there were risoners"" in Sri be wrong to " by that term 2 said, had been sonable suspicion' took III to the Telease 5 ince she ty lecturer and LO get a Way. Ճ the President, General Secretary Worker's Congress, the government, elease con humaniHe said Ms. Liya
HUMAM RIGHTS
nage's parents were deepy concerned that her detention by the CID would cause a serious relapse in her medical condition. Women's organisations pledge
Several women's organisations, at a meeting here Friday resolved to appeal to the government for the lecturer's release.
The Island newspaper reported that Ms. Liyanage is detained at the slave island police station in the city from where she was taken to the CID headquarters daily for 12 hours of Interrogation. informed sources here said the interrogation was conducted by intelligence officials trained by the sraeli "Mossad'' Intelligence agency. University circles alleged that Ms. Liyanage was being held as a 'hostage' for a visiting lecturer at Colombo University and a Lefti5. Si ha ese intelle CELa Who went underground after over 50 Sinhalese marxists, sympathetic to the Tamils" cause Were arrested a few months ago. Ms. Liyanage is an anti wist of the Women"5 movement "women for peace', which had held street demonstrations in Colombo, demanding a negotiated settlement of the ethnic problem. The demonstration was broken up by the police.
- (News Day)
he failure to give *Cessary to attract honourable men to ty's cause. So our rowded With indthese institutions operational bases er Private interving '''fringe benea situation science fessor Karl Eric ked, the need is th a mind only, |th a mind and a Such men regrete species in our
a might heed the by a lone dissenter and Cadres Com
s hawe a pre
to play in the of a country.
Connection to views expressed ng Report by Mr.
N. S. Perer a member of the Wilmot Perera Commission. We cannot hope to attract into the ranks of Scientists men of the highest calibre un less ther salaries and cadre ratios are at east as attractive as those of the Administrative Service. Many of our problems including those relating to rice and other produce would have been 5olved long ago if only we had the foresight to give a proper place In the salary structure to the Scientists."
Foresight has been an attribute almost alien to the Administrators of independent Sri Lanka in comprehending problems such as "those relating to rice and other produce." So the research ship is sinking. There are pirates and smugglers on board. Can it be rescued? This surely must be the challenge before the proposed Agricultural Research Council.
(To be continued)

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in Parliament
TAMIL - MUSLM RIFT
THE ISRAEL
(Mr. Anura Bandaranalike - Leader of the Opposition)
I am proposing this token cut of Rs. 10 from the Budgetary Estimates for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a certain sense of sorrow on the orie hand and a certain sense of delight on the other. My sorrow, is because the affable, genial, extremely charming and tactful Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs has over the last ten years smiled his way through from one crisis to another. Whatever at going to say about the foreign policy of the Government, I would ike to a 55ure the Hon. Minister Es nothing personal against him. I am moving the cut with a certain sense of delight because the foreign policy of the Government, the UNP administration, as will go on to demonstrate, has taken a completely unprecendented turn-about. It has in fact gone pack to the foreign policy that existed in this country prior to 1956, probably even worse.
Naw, Sir, from 1956. Until about 978-79 the foreign policy of the United National Party and the foreign policy of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party were not very different. I think the cornerstone of the foreign policy was, and St1 || remains l' hope, nonalignment, close friendship with the Third World nations and of course a very warm personal understanding with our nearest neighbour, India. This think broadly sums up the essence of the foreign policy commitments of the UNP and of the SLFP. But, Sir, that period falls between |95E and aԷ Ճut 1978-79,
May 1, Sir, with your Permission, go back very briefly to the foreign policy that existed in this country,
before 1956. It was a foreign policy suited and designed to Please, quite un necessarily our
former colonial Tasters. It was
PRESEN
such a strange f a ration that
ears of colonial independence. W to dance to the colonial Tas ters, the Government bet Woen 1948 refused to excha with the Sovie: People's Republic were Ambassador even the scientis Were not permit this country f: influence of Comm Sir, the perfect an extremely pr British pro-Ame 956 changed at Minister wi II ag tire W. Wit colonial 5 traightlessly establishe th 3 So'Wiet Un| Ambassador was Dr. G. P. Malalas established. ге||a People's Republi opened our doo World - to Yugos man Democratic number of other S But, Sr., that d We Were going
11. It friends. We main ship with the on an even keel Mr. Bandarinaik together with Minister of Engl; Eden, and I thin the lost vocifer Anthony Eden which cost him the invasion of
Now, Sir, this the continuation policy. The clos the Arab World Wè took of EbeH nation strugglin Struggling to Struggling to sh;

AND NCE
oreign policy for after nearly 350 Tu le had ach i gyd e 5 till continued UTC of our forma
So much 5o tha E. of Sri Lanka and 1956 ewen Inge ambassadors t Union and the of China. Not only 5 not exchanged, t and sportsmen ted to Come to a ring the evil In Ists. That was, foreign policy for o-Western, prorican country. But hat, A5, the Horn. oee, for the first out from this Jacket. We feard relations with on and our first the distinguished
ckera. We also Dio 15 WILF, EH
of China. We
is to the Socialist llawia, to the GerRepublic and a ocialist countries. id not mean that to sacrifice ou
· out Wgs to I tained our friend. United Kingdom In fact the late Was at Oxford the then Pric and Sir Anthony ik hğ Wi 5 one of "OLI5 Critics of Sir and the blunder is premiershipthe Suez Canal.
Was, I believe,
of our foreign sness. We had with the bold stand alf of Egypt, a
g to be born, be independent, ke off its Colo
The annual Foreign Affairs debate, usually a tame, aimless exchange, as not only high-spirited but centred on a single issue, ISRAEL, with th: OCH "MILIslim fictur" much in Evidence, S KGLaS S LLLLLLLLSYS S a La SS S S LLLLL LLLLLLa L Indian concern, the debate spotlighted a aHCLLLLL SLLLLL KaaCLL T CL | currenti crisis - Ed.
nia shakes. We backed the T1 fully. We backed thern from the bottom of our hearts because We felt that their cause was just. But yet we maintained our close relations with the United Kingdon. At no time did the Sri Lanka Freedom Party's relations with the United Kingdom Government, even though We had taken a stand against their Suez policy, ever
sour. They appreciated the fact that we were a Third World Nation, that we were just re
covering from 350 years of colonialism and that our place Was rightfully amongst the struggling developing Third World Nations.
Sir, then we began to take a important and positive role in Non-Alignment. As the late Mr. Bandaranaliko said, Nom-Alignment does not can that We stand on the fanco. It means that there =mmitםis a Commitment, and a C to the hill, on matters which we think are right. A lot of people, Sir, hawa, as the Hon. Minister knows very well, rather strange notions on what NonAlignment should be. Non-Alignment does mean that you never take a side, that you sit on the fence that you play up to both si des and get the best from both sides. That, Sr., is not NonAlignment. Non-Alignment is a policy which was enunciated by great Third World leaders likę N'Krumah Sukarno, Jawa harlal Nehru, Marshal Tito and people like that who hawe won in de Perldence for their country. They felt that it was the best policy because we could not in a "ಟ್ಲಿ; which does not concern LS between the two major super-Powers, take sides, but we will pool our resources tagather, mostly werbally, of course - this is half the problem now with the Non-Ali
gned nations - and We take a common stand on a number of
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Now, Sir this was roughly the major corner stone of Sri Lanka's foreign policy, and also, as mentioned earlier, was our very close and extremely personal relations with India, State to State relations are between a Government and another but with the closeness of India geographically, politically and in every other sense, I believe, that the closeness of the Heads of State, two Prime Ministers, went a long Way in ironing out a number of What seemed irreconcilable differences on a number of occasions on a personal basis. That, Sir, was roughly the corner-stone of Sri Lanka's foreign policy which the United National Party maintained om a 驚 even keel though there were slight side movements sometimes in Warious directions till about the years 1978 and 1979.
Why do I stop at the years 1978 and 1979. That is because to my mind and to the mind of the Opposition and to those who follow Sri Lanka's foreign policy closely there had been a dramatic turn around in our foreign policy. can not say that the foreign Policy between 1979 and 1986 was the same foreign policy that the United National Party followed when they were in office between 1965 and 970 and between 1977 and 1979. Why do I say this? will show you in two or three major areas where we have digressed, diverted and taken a course from which Sri Lanka will hawe to change sooner or later,
First take the question of our relations with the Middle East. The closeness of our relations with the Arab countries cannot be exaggerated. Not only are We a part of the Third World, not only are we victims of similar colonial rule, we are also struggling to develop our economies With the limited resources we hawe. Eight per cent of the Muslim population in Sri Lanka has had a long and very clase relationship with the Arab world. The Arabs have stood by us when We were in great difficulty and we have stood by the Arabs at every possible turn. On every possible key issue Sri Lanka was in the forefront, though we are
|고
a small nation wit People and of on miles in size, and
was respected in Lanka's Woice W. world though we іпsignificant in p 5 ize. Sri Lankä"; Teasured either or its geographic measured by the OWitol and the purpose. Theref. blished a very clic lationship. And
Minister of Fort selected to hold personally felt h;
understands the very well. He Palestinian prob
COf course, I hawe being a Muslim lings must be sy cause of the Pa Arabs.
But look at the Government has hawe i miwited tha ment — || do no they came by ch relevant to IC . Interests Section, United State5. Er they are functior entity. The deci Israelis here big not only in the coi nizing our Arab Comes 50 a LH Our Lota turn a eign policy where to morally, what on platforms and Nation 5 0 0 1 || House, break the WITH LHI ATES LTE or World. Apart disgusting policy Israelis, where the to be of a lessor Inferior race, Zionism with thi ceful concept of 2 theid practised
Tielt of South A
Let us not go of Zionism beca quite strictly sp to what I am goin we asked you til from this sig of

חסIIfווח 15 nlyס h ly 25,000 square Sri Lanka "5 Woice the World. Sri is heard in the 2 were stal and opulation and in i Wice a 5 1 0 E by its population a size. It was frness of our : sincerity of our re, We have estase and long reWhen the Hom. aign Affairs was the portfolio, I appy because he Arab problem understands the lem very well. no doubt that naturally his feempathetic to the estinians and the
: policy that the fo|lowed. You Israeli Gowornknow whether oice; that is not - to establish an first of all in the Wסח dחmbassy a ning as a separate sion to bring the Comes important ntext of antagnofriends, it babigger problem. round in our forWe have decided
E''ET 'OL Tilt 5:
at 靶 鷺 he Floor of his umbilical cord d also break the with the Third from the most of Zionism of the y consider Arabs ac and of a mot areקוחסy C|חס חa equally disgraIonism and aparby the Govern. frica.
nito the question Lussa that 15 tot eaking, relevant g to say. When le and time again
the House as to
why the Government changed their foreign policy and decided to emibrace Israel to its bossom we were told that it was for security reasons. We were told that We Trust seek aid and assistance from anybody in the World because we were facing a terrorist threat. Though we did not accept that explanation - We accept it less now - we believe that that was fundamentally your purpose. But, Sir, now that the Israelis have been here I think for over three years and they will be going into the fourth year - | am not sure of the time period, but any way it is over three yearsin what way have the Israelis helped you to combat terrorism? How will the Israelis be able to help the Government of Sri Lanka and the people of this country to combat terrorism. They are supposed to have sent secret service agents here and they are supposed to have given you advice on counter-terrorism and counterinsurgency. When they are the bigger terrorists and the biggest insurgents in the world stage you have gone and sought advice from them. There are rumours that you have bought arms from them. Leave a II that 5 d. But What 15 the Impact you have been able to make on the terrorist front by your Eloséné55 Ea srael
Sir, we all know that two army personnel were kipпарped in Jaffna and they are still held in a close proximity of less than a mille from the Jaffna Fort; they are holding them in the Jaffna hospital less than mille from Jaffa Fort So, with all the advice you hawe received from Israel with all the counter-insurgency strategy that Israel has brain-feld you, you hawe not been ble to Ta5 Le the 5e two army Lieutenants. When Israelis moved 5,000 miles in less than 12 days from Tel Awiw to Kampala, Uganda, to rescue the hijacked Israeli citizens who were held at the Entebbe Airport - we all know what happened at the Entebbe Airport - it was one of the swiftest operations in modern times. When from one continent they move to another in the cover of darkness and rescued their citizens which we as citizens of the world have nothing against, we applauded. But why have you,

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with the Israelis who were able to rescue their citizens, having moved a distance of five thousand miles, not been able, with their assistance to rescue these two hapless army Lieutenants who are less than a mile away from the Jaffna Fort
So, Sir, this argument that Israel is hawe been brought here to combat terrorism does not
hold ground. It does not hold Water for the simple reason that their presence here has not made the slight est impact on the Cornbating of terrorism and insurrection.
On the other hand, their presence here has caused a great deat of consteination, not only among the Muslims of this country but also among the Indian Government, among the Arab friends and the socialist block countries, as the Hon. Minister well I knows.
Now, Sir, the whole relationship with Israel is shrouded in mystery and secrecy. It is like an Agatha Christle or a P. D. James nowel: one does not know who is going to get murdered in the next chapter: you have to walit holding your breath till the last page to find out who did it. So, our relationship with Isreal is very much like that.
The Hon. Minister, I think, met his counterpart at that time the Foreign Minister of Israel Mr. Yitzhak Shamir who is now the Prime Minister, in New York, and this was not reported in the Sri Lankan press. Il qui te understand the Hon. Minister's predicamont. With the was amount of Muslim voters in Haris pattuwa he could not possible announce in the local press that he had met the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mr. Yitzak Shamir. It was kept secret until the World press gave publicity to it and that was publicly known.
The second such meeting which also shrouded in the same kind of mystery was the meeting between olur. President and the then Prime Minister of Israel Mr. Shlon Peres who is now the Foreign Minister. We Were told that they met in Pari5. We Were al 50 told quite naively that they were both
booked into th it so happened tally bumped ir
the corridors.
NOW, Sr., as knows Wei, such Heads of State hotel lobbies ol ānts, f ārī accidental, it is | quite respectf for a single se arranged, all p not know who may be the Fre But certainly t not accidental.
Now tha thir and most imp meetings shroud the arriya|| Har Presidet, Chai CarTe to Sri Li ago. When Prasi to Sri Laka, til for Atta nagalla at adjournment it The Hon Minig the 5jänd nör and the answer Hon. Min|5fter Affairs and Spor the Minister Wä5 and so Was the and therefore h position to answ.
(A Member)
He 5a Ed ha doe
(Mr. Anura Bandari
He said he di doo Bae rקוחסfull and c would be given the Hon. Mini: Minister will gi that is not my diate answer sh given on the arri" to Sri Lanka f | believe was a ago. A compre should hawe bec House because tre Tiendous arm. tO I Sri LE Mu5||m nation,5 t like Malaysia a even the Philippi to a that at all totally oppi President Herzo

same hotel and hat they accidento each other in
he Hon. Minister meetings between do not occur in
in hoc | Te5 tautold that i E i 5 a II something, which ly do not believe :ond. It was all e-planned. I do
pre-բlanned it, inch Government. lat meeting Was
the most serious ortant of these ed in mystery Was of the Israel m Herzog, who ika barely a week dent Herzog came 1E HEn. Mբmber raised this Tatter ime in this House, Wils ot. In was the Deputy was given by the of Parliamentary "ts. He said that out of the Island Deputy Minister Was not in a ar the Question
is not know.
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oes not know, I him and that a "ehens Wa ans Wer on the arrival of ter, The Hon. we it today. But point. An immecould hawe bean yal of the Ministar om India which bout 8 or 9 days SWe state Test n made in this it has caused a punt of conster1 Inka, among the of South East Asia ld Indonesia and mes - I will refer 3r - where they psed the Wisit of g
Let me first show you the extent of the hospitality that we offered when President Herzog came here. I am quoting from the 'Sun' newspaper of 21. i. 1986. It says :
"Israeli President chain Herzog hold an unannounced luncheon meeting with President J. R. Jayewardene during a brief stop-over in Colombo yesterday.
A special Israeli jet carrying the Israeli President and senior cifficia frem his office and the Israeli Foreign Minister touched down at the Colombo international Airport, Katunayake around noon. There was no official ceremony for Mr. Herzog who was returning home from a 3 day state tour of Asia and the South Fasc.
He was net at the airport by National Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudali, aLS LLaaLLHHLLL LLLL LaLLLLL LLLL aa Israeli Interests. Sction in Colombo."
Now I would like to know why the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs did not receive him. He is the person who really speaking, protocol-wise, should hawe been at the Airport to receive the President
of a now-very-friendly country with you. But, of course, Sir, the Hon. Minister of Foreign
Affairs being a Wery as tute and and a very shrewd politician has always his eye screwed back to Haris pattuwa and the Muslim wote in the Kandy district. So I do not blame him, for if he had been photographed with President Herzog, We Would have produced it at the next election. So he very shrewdly avoided a meeting with Mr. Herzog, and Mr. Athu lathmudali who has hardly a Muslim vote in Ratmalana was sent to receive the Israeli President. To continue :
"At Katunayake, the lisraeli President and party boarded an airforce helicopter which brought them to the army headquarters in Colombo. Amidst tight security the visitors were driven to the President's House for a luncheon meeting with President Jayewardena.
The two leaders discussed about matters of bilateral interest "in general terms'". Hain Devon, head of the Israeli Interests Section told 'SUN" after the meeting.
It was a very useful visit". Mr. DeWan said,
Now, Sir, this is what We
would like to know; how useful was it. For whom was it useful if it was useful for Sri Lanka
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would like, the Hon. Minister o tell us today in the course of his speech in what way it was Li 5eful tio Sri Lanka.
Mr. Herzog is a very distinguished Israeli, a great intellectual himself, a Wery liberal Iman, a leading member of the Israeli Labour Party, for whom | hawe a great admiration as a person
- not as an Israeli — as an individual. What was he able to give you? Did he tell you about
the Labour Party of Israel 2 or did he discuss about the E TOW ing of Daffodils and Chyrysanthemums? Or did he discuss something much more important which concerns all of us, our security and our relation with the rest of the world? I think the Hon. Minister mu infor LIs What ths Very useful di 5CU55ion was.
He said some business of mutual
"Portance was discussed but dd elaborate."
Which I am sure the Hon. Minister Will do today. The article States further:
After the luncheon, the Israeli Presiden and Entourage were raken . brief Sights ecing tour of Colombo. It included the Parliamentary Complex in Si Jayewardenepura and the "Esc", The visitors also visited the Asoka rama Timb|rigasyaya, President חlg IקTEm Jayewardene's red Daimler was on loan för the wisiting Presidenti
"President Jayewardene's red Daimler was on loan for the visiting President
The Israeli President boarded his Blue and White Boeing 707 at 5.35 р. п. yesterday and left for Tel Aviv. He
left with good feelings and was very #ed With Sri Lanka" Mr. Dewa s
I would like to ask the Hon. Foreign Minister what caused the good feelings? What were the Commitments you made to Israel or what were the commitments Israel made to you which made them feel good? What were the good impressions he had Was it the Japanese-built Parliamen that impressed him or the Asoka. Гаппа, Тепmple in Thimbirigasyaya which impressed him or the Chiess-built BMICH which impressed him? Or, was it something more substantial which impresse him Was it some commitment you had given that impressed him or was it some commitment that he had
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given you and W. so gladly which Sir, when the like 'impressed visit', 'very imp feelings', they arbitrarily like a purpose behind Luse, lika in e We do. The article g:
"It was first wi In Israeli head of 5
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Foreign Ministry Ci liբբ Էd Eեքut the wi pired during it.
Speculation over con Wednesday Wh Lakshman Jayaka dy a whether the gove talks with the Israeli Wat not ans Wereld g| A. C. S. Hilled and FETTI Am do Were mot the til
Since the opening E551 il Provided Sri Lanka i for Of military tra the security forces, agri LI IELI reġ,
Mean Whig, a Rel Awit adds. Isara Pre: mīlds an Lun expecte today at the end Asil and te ISIH official Israeli i risit ti radio reported.
Sri Lanka Ebi Tolka [srEgI i I97O thre | GÉ" Middle East y:
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'hich you accepted impressed him. Sraelis LISe Words by', 'very useful ressed" and "good o mot Lu5e them We do. There is every word they rything esse they Jes on to 5ay =
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diplomatic ties with years after the LT
report in the November 1986 | Col. Ministe w|||| ry appeared con Ild contined on 5 visit not only tio gree H 05 trato C
would also like to quote from the 'Sun' of 18th November, 1986. The article reads
" "Moslem sensitivity, hits i sraeli President's Asian tour Israeli President Chaim Hercogs Asia Facific tout ha 5 lur into problems on the home stretch because of Moslem sensitivity at his presence in South East Asia, diplomats said here :riayםם
A visit to the Philippines was cancelled at the last moment and his schcduled three-day wis it to Singapore from to marrow Es un der fire from Malaysia, which rccalled for consultations its High Commissioner (Ambassador) to : Singapare."
Malaysia and Singapore are even closer than India and Sri Lanka, both geographically and in every sense of the Word. I think this was the first time that the Malaysa Government recalled its High Commissioner in protest at the visit of a foreign head of state to Singapore.
"Malaysia ni Fring Minister Mahathir Mohammad said the recall of the envoy, who left for home today, would not affect ties with Singapore. But newspapers in Kuala Luupur said it was a Protest against Herzog's visit to the i5.larid Sti, t.
Cardinal Jaime Sin, religious leader of the predominantly Roman Catholic Filippings, denied Flinia EAngeled Herzog's visit because of pressure . . ."
It continues
"Press reports from Manila said the Foreign Ministry opposed Herzog's visit LL L L LLLLLY S S LLLLLLL S S LLC S LLeHLLLLHLLLLLLL S SHLHHL LHOLCLL L LLCaLCLK CCCLC SLLLLS LLLLLL Moslem rebels in the Southern Philippines.
Herzog is on the last leg of his
|9-day tour. . . . ..."
The 'Island' of Monday 17th November, 1986 also gave a detaied account of the Feca || of Malagia"5 High Commissioner from Singapore in protest at Mr. Herzog's visit. It goes on to say the same thing, Sir, But this shows very clearly that the Malaysian Government, in protest against Herzog's visit, recalled its ambassador. It is very unusual for a country like Malaysia.
Another country which protested Herzog's visit, another predominantly Muslim country, was Indonesia. I am quoting from the "Island' newspaper of Thursday, 20th Nowember 1986. "'Singapore, November" | 9 (Reuter)" — “Malaysia and Indonesia rebuked by Herzog''.

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Israel President CharTn Herzog today rebuked Malaysia and Indonesia for
opposing his visit to Singaporo, said they OLLL LLLLLL aLLLL LLL LLLL L L LL LLL LLLLL S LLLLLL LLLHL CCLLLLLSS CLLLLLLL LLLLLLLLSLLL HLHHLLL ton të ri the Tij."
Surely, Sir, as the Hon. Minister knows, I think about 90 per cent or 80 Per cent of Malaysia is Muslim, and about 90 per cent of Indonesia is Musir. When the perper trator of all the barbaric acts against the Arabs and the Palestinians arrives in a friendly country next to their country, surely the Muslims of both Malaysia ard Indonesia hawe ewery right to protest? But what does Herzog say? He says it is none of their business! Look at the arrogance.
"Herzog, who arrived yesterday for a three-day visit was commenting on protests from Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta over Singapore's alleged lack of sensitivity LLLHHLLLLLLL LLLL S LLLLL S HLKaaCLL S LLLLLL in wit ing him.
He said visits by Israeli leaders to ZYS LLLS LLtLLLLLLL S S LLLLLSSS K L SS LL LLL LLL L S S L Egypt caused no fuss. In the Middle East and added: "Frankly I'm at a loss . . . . hawe a feeling that some people are out of date in this part of the World."
He has not only embarrassed the Muslims of Malaysia and Indonesia, ha has also traad on their corns by saying that he has a feeling that they are out of date. The feelings of all Muslims not only Muslims but all other people as well like myself- or the ques Eion of Pales Fine cannot be out of date. It is the very pre
sence of Israel and CCCLII Pied Palestinian territories which is very much to date, which has
caused this protest. But the Israeli President turns a Nelsonian eye and calls all those who protested GLUt of date.
That is the reaction also of the Philipines, which is now engaged in a very sensitive process of negotiating with the Muslim rebels in the South of the Philipines. President Aquino's government thought it very prudent not to invite the Israeli President at this point of time. That is because in those countries like the Philipines the interests of the country come first. As Lord Palmerston, one of the most effective Foreign Secretaries England ever had, said, Britain has
ns permanant fri לואי החל צאצאRSNאף With that matt
Similarly, in a ther developed Country, the func of the foreign
Es permanent int not be done in It cannot be do and incoherently. hot and coldmy good Friend Mimi start of For said that this G policy of blowin cold with India. that later. But that in foreign
The most imp far as We are the reaction of M Cr the Phillipln Course We respe BLI E India's Tiga E Portant to us, reason that India mely and thorough the ongoing pea fact, you are com to Indian goodwi နို်ငု8 the WI is Шt anyway you beholden 嵩 猎 pending so much US not go into cons of that; Tal wiews on tha arte mot Tea||leyft Whate weer one L role, whatever th With India W5-a- and there are | do mot Wärt E them - you all k has been playing incomprehensibe the terrorists are W ll T 2 CO E TITI are doing no neig to another, I thi beginning of time, a side. But if your foreign pö your foreign Polit Very existence of а шпітагy State — of India, you mus sensitive point of ton. IZE - India om a | 55 uë, The Indian: Siti Wie as the Hor. Frankly, if you a

ends, it has only SSኢፌ. ኣ `ቅ$Wነ አtemአ
later.
ny country, wheor developing lamental objective policy must be erest5. It Should fits and starts. ne, inconsistently You cannot blow - a phrase from the Hon. Deputy ign Affairs. He ower Tent has a ց հot and blowing | Will come to you cannot do Policy.
"tal treaction as oncerned is not alaysia, Indonesia es, although of tt their we ws. |gf is Very Imfor the simple is today extrely involved with |ce proce55. In Pletely beholden II. A5 to How | do mot know,
are completely ... You are deOn India. Le :
| the pros and have my Persot matter; they to this debate. hinks of India's 10 contradictions wis ST || Laka - many of ther; o elaborate on ոքw that India
a completely role as far as : concerned and What they hbour has done ink, since the
Leave a that ou are placing ІІсу — поt חסly ty, but even the this Country as on the goodw it, at this very time, not anforeign policy 5 sa Te Wery 5enMinister knows. skille whether
India has a right to comment on Èhe sist cì a ioreign Yeaà o State, I will tell you personally my answer to that. But, Sir, om the Floor of the House | would say that India's reactions are in fact important to us, and Very important to us at this point of time. We should not do anything at this stage to antagonize
India because India is, after all,
the only sayiour of the UNP
Government.
Now, India has protesed at
Mr. Chaim Herzog's Visit. You have it reported in the "Island' of 24.86.
"India Worried over Herzog visit
India has complained to Sri Lanka about Isragli President Chaim Herzog's stopo War in Cola rimbo last Week, High ConTimissioner Jyotindra Dixit said today.
"We are concend about the visit and have expressed our Linhappiness to President Junius Jayewardene", "Dixit cold ReLJ Eers without élaborating.
Dixit Tigit Jayewardene last night for talks on New Delhi's peace plan to end the ethnic conflict between majority Sinhalese - and Tni inority Ta mills on the
Sri Lankan and Israeli officials said Herzog's surprise six-hour wisit on Thursday at the end of a 19-day tour of Asia and the Pacific was private,
A National Security Ministry spokesTan Sid Herzog net Jayewardere ower lunch but denied widespread speculation that the two Presidents had negotiated
arts.
Now, this is what is worrying India, obviously,
"It was the first to Sri Lanka by an |sraeli Head af state.'
This was tucked away, I believe, in the "Islands' at the bottom of the first page. The moral that We learn from this les son is that at a time when the Filipino President, President Aquino, refused even to entertain Mr. Herzog because it might upset her delsCate negotiations with the Muslim rebels, we are in a similar situation. We are facing here an equally difficult problem as Mrs. Aquino is facing in the Philipines, with rebels and insurgents and terrorists occupying one-third of out |land.
Now, India is paramount in these negotiations. You have made India paramount, and having made

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India paramount, I cannot understand why you invite Cham Herzog to wist you. God alone knows what results it has brought you, but it has certainly antogozed India, so much so that the Indian High Commissioner here was asked to protest by the Indian Government to President Jayewardene about Mr. Herzog's Wit.
While all this is going on, how do you expect the world to take you seriously? How do
you expect your Arab friends to take you seriously. It was reported in the "Weerakeseri" of this morning that the Ambassdor of Iraq, the Ambassador of the PLO and the Ambassador of Libya
hawe interwiewed the Foreign Ministry or the Minister and expressed their concern over the
wisit of President Chaim Herzog. The Ambassador or the Charge d' Affairs of Iran has also, I believe, protested about this visit.
Now, with all these things happening, how do you expect your Arab friends to take you serio Lully? ... How do you expect India to take you seriously India obviously is concerned about his very presence here. They are tLLLLLLL SS LLCLLLaL S LLLL S S HH S S aLLLLLLL deal and a number of other ratters. That is why I want the Hon. Minister to come out clean and make a statement, a full statement, as to what the dealIngs you hawe with the Israeli Government arte. That i 5 5 or Tiething important. Leave asiderdia, leave aside the Arabs, but take tha Sri Lanka 15. We hawe a right to know why this complete turn-about in our foreign policy has taken place; what results has it brought us; what discussions hawe been held with Israel; are there arms negotiations; if so, what are the negotiations and so ori ar 5 a forth ? | am sure the Hon. Minister, with an eye en Haris pattuva, no doubt, would give a full account of what has taken place. - (riterruption). No. You are the darling of Haris pat Lu wa !
Sir, the Government, as I said, cannot be taken seriously because, whilst you are openly flirting with the Israeli Government, your
5ta. Om inte Tat something quite look at this. the "Daily News' ber 1986, page reaffirms recognit S|r theist. Is a foolery. There playing the fool Sir Fock at wha
LUEd Nation5 - sistently upheld the cof the Palest in Ian F struggle for self-det territorial integrity Faye Been LindET i. IቛùW..."
Who is the The President u gave Y4סy וחסWh to and took arol ColomԷյt and fi everything is fili He went awa) Everybody was p happened. This
let of the in entertained whic occupied Palestini
97.
"Speaking before CrIIlITittee, Arnau Ed L. Sri Lil conties t TBCOE Liberation Organist legitima të represerit tinian people and h חםthוחEםםםח םiםaוח Sri Lanka."
This is the st: the Government, doubt the Hon. in his reply reaf ent to the PLC OK, BLE HIGWE World to take Whilst of the reaffirming your commitment to ration Organisati con the othet har flirting without t of shame, witho sense of embarr: Very per peLiator barId acts in the territory.
How do you even if you can diplomatic charm Han, "||"15ter can Present bott both to the Ar; Mr. Herzog. Bu

onal forums is diff FC. NOW am qLI oting from of 7th Nowo3: "Sri Lanka ion of PLO "", it to tis a limit to With the World. t this says:
- Sri Li. Tıkıl ha 5 cm =
in alienable rights eople in their just Trondhe of their lands which tgal occupation since
legal occupier? of the country ur Red Daimler und showing him Isa saying that ne, tickety-bool Wery haBBY - leased with what is the Goyernשםm Yסan Whו h has illegally an territory from
ng Uri". Ti I Farouque, reaffirmis recognised, and nis a the Fales Eine af is the sejle ind Ftity of the Pasas accorded dipl.- to its mission in
ited position of
and || hawe o
Minister would fir T our CommitD. At that is o you expect the
you seriously? ne hand you are
faith and your la Falle55.time LibiëSn and the Arabs hd you are openly he slightest sense ut the slightest issment, with the
of all the bar. 2 occupied Arab
equate the two; , With all your and affability,
I am sure you 1 points of view, bs as well as to how do you
expect the
world to take you seriously at
that given point of
time? You can speak well, you have been Minister of Foreign Affairs for nine years and you
hawe held the Officia ewan agains. your own Conscience. You hawe held office with a certain a mount of dignity, there is no doubt about that. BLI LI Eha Hon. Mimister, however charming hic may be, however persuasive he may be on the world forum-(Interruption). If you are Muslim, if you are Islamic by faith, you cannot have another conscience. Your pe o Pole are being butchered by the Israelis, their land is occupied by the Israelis.
(Mr. A. C. S. Ha meed-Minister of Foreign Affairs)
I will reply you. I do want to disturb you.
(Mr. An Lura Banda rana ike)
Thank you very much, I appreciate that. Your people are being butchered, your relations are being Butchered, tha land from which 醬 religion came is being attacked
y them. So how can you obviously have a conscience and support Israel? You possibly cannot. But, Sir, that is not the point. The point, is, however convincing your argument is, how do you expect the world to take you seriously when there is a stark contradiction In principle:
Now, the Indian 5 hawe the Same LLHHLHaH SS S LLLL a LLLLLLS SH0L S CL have got. They have the same commitment to the Arabs that we hawe got. But they hawe newer fited with the 15 Tale i5 in the same way we hawe done. We have been told about some consular section that is operating in Bombay. We have been told by the Indians time and time again-the matter came up before the House a couple of years ago–that that is entirely a consular operation to issue wisas to the travelling Jews. I believe there is a fair amount of Jews in Maharashtra, whose capital is Bombay.
Now, Sir, we cannot accept that argument. I do not want to use the word hypocrisy on the Hon. Minister because I know he is not a hypocrite, but the hypocrisy points at the UNP Government. It is something we find in

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our foolishness very difficult to understand. I hope the Arabs with their wisdom can understand you better.
Now, Mr. Chairman, may reiterate the policy of the Sri Lanka Freedom party on this question. We have always stood, and stood very sincerely, as the Arabs will know, on their side. We hawe not changed our position at all. We hawe taken a stand against Israel on a matter of moral principle and not for temporary gain
or for some imaginary benefit. We stick by that, and if the Government ever changed, the
first thing we would do is to break relations with Israel within 24 hours. I would like to inform our Arab friends and the Muslims of this country that we will redo what we hawe done in 1970. Whatever temporary benefits we hawe from the Israelis is not going to cover our decision. We have stood by the Arabs in their hour of need as much as they stood by Us in our hour of need and we intend to stand on the Side of the Arab 5 without finching and Without giving an inch and we will do so once again breaking all relations with Israel.
Having said that, let me not go at length into the local Muslim reactions to all this because the Hon. Minister knows wery well that at the time the Israeli Interests Section was formed in this country there were a number of prayer meetings in a number of leading mosques all over the country, a number of protests in mosques, and | believe there was also a case of the police opening fire and one young Muslim, I think, was shot at thought he
did not die. So the Muslims, obviously, in this country feel about this. The Hon. Minister
knows very well much more than I do, and my good Friend, the Third member for Colombo Cen. tral, also knows much more than I do what affinity the Muslims hawe to the Arab World. So obviously, their sensitivities have been hurt and I think the Government has shown not the slightest interest in the sensitivities of the Muslim People of this country.
(Mr. M. Haleem. Isha! Central)
Mr. Chairman, of the Oppositi cally all aspects the President of present connectic of Sri Lanka has
happen to be Tlember Of Par Opposition. As of the Oppositi said, I know th; the responsibilit Minister of Fore a very dificult i concern about locally and intern the amount of
the Sette TE it is his du ty t But today, very difficult task wh agree with, | kr Thind, he has to
Sir, there ar, that I would lik first atter is been ralls ing on House many at Minister has giv those occasions. the opening of : 1 OL CLltro right, year befo hon. Second Men raised thi5 matter C2T gawe an a House that an E be opened but a be opened. You though thousand being retrenched yet there are th who hawe to ob they go to Saur year Muslims, at or more, go to M. Today If a per alone to Saudi somebody to Ne a wisa. Til to Minister has giv to this House, has not been op
would like Minister whethe bearing, your de a Consulate in the presence of I would like thi to answer that

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the Hon. Leader -Vered practiסוrג of the wist of f Israel and the in the Government with Israel. Sir, the only Muslim liament in the the Hol Leader in quite correctly at the task and y of the Hon. ign Affairs is also 5וr hיוס חit+. | kחם Muslim matters wסationally I kn: Interest he takes because he feels o give leadership. Infortunately, a ich he would not חWם HI5 חW, Iמו
handle.
E: a feW matters a to rais. The he which I hawe the Floor of this | me and the HEn, ET 55 LITT OG CIT That is regarding 1 Saudi Embassy If I Temo mber e last when the bert for Baru wala the Hon. MinisSurance to this mbassy would not Consulate would are aware that of Workers ag and sent back, ousands of others til Wi5a5 befora | Arabia. Every east a thousand acca to fulfil Haj. son is travelling has to send w Delhi to get day, though the
that 355 Lurrainc ven a Consulata rec.
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Minister
The second matter would like to raise is about the USS 500,000 Ioan for the Madura Oya Project. You are award that the Government of Saudi Arabia Ha5, been our friend for many years. Not only Saudi Arabia, even the other Arab countries promised us a loan of R.S. 50 milion for the Maduru Oya Project. Why hawe we not got this Ioan I would like to ask the Hon. Minister of Foreign affairs, whethet this loa wa 5 mar given to us or whether they are not prepared to give it to us because of the presence of the Israelis in this country? I am sure the position is going to be worse now, especially after the visit of the President of Israel to our country. As correctly mentioned by the Hon. Leader of the Opposition, this is the first time, if remember right, that a Head of State from Israel has come to Our Country.
Now, the Hon. Leader of the Opposition mentioned about Indonesia and Malaysia. They are countries which are members in the ASEAN You are aware that ASEAN is definitely very close to America and also Israel is propped up by America, it is a stooge of America. So if Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia hawe Protested about the wisit of Israeli President to Singapore I am sure we should protest in a much more effective way about his visit here. So without taking a stand of that nature, you allow the Israeli President to come here and you tell the country that he was here ori a Lechnica visit that the plane arrived here On a technica visit. I would ske to ask the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs - firstly he was not present at the airport nor were his officials awal labe for commen L — if It was a technical wis it why was he here for five and a half hours ? He was hosted to lunch by the Head of State, His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka, and also his red Daimler was given to him for use. Then he wisited the Parliament and the BMICH also.
| Would like to ask the Government whether these things were not planned or scheduled 2 I think this type or irresponsible statements that are being made to the
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nation are not taken very seriously. As far as the Muslims of this country are concerned, I think the President made it fairly clear when he held the Working Collmittee meeting of the United National Party at the John de Silva Memoria || Hall. He told the Muslim members of the United National Partly. "If you disagree with Illy decision to open an israeli Interests Section in this country, you can leave my party." - (Interruption). Why not? This is what he told the Muslim members of the United National Party. So, as far as the United National Party is concerned where their foreign policy is concerned, they are out to esta
blish even stronger and closer links with Israel.
The other question that I like
to pose is whether at the discussic Held With the Preside Tit. It was agreed to open an embassy in this country. If that is so I think we are entitled, the country
is entitled, to know what your
policy is where that particular
matter is concerned.
Sir, today the "Wira kesari"
reports that the Ambassadors for Iraq, Libya and the PLO had interwiewed the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs. They also had expressed concern about the visit of the Israeli President to our country. I would like to know what transpired and what replies
were given. I think we are entitled Foto know. This is not a : Pri Wa Le
matter. It is not a matter between two individuals. It is a matter between the Governmeut of Sri Lanka and the government of Iraq, Libya and the PLO. I am also informed reliably that the Iranian Charge d'affairs in this country also had seen you last Friday, protesting or even expressing LLLLLCLLLLS S LLLLLLaLLLLL S LLLL SLLLLL S L LLKLLLLSSS dent's visit to our country. You are aware, Sr., that the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs who has been a Minister for ten years, who has attended quite a number of international conferences, who has negotiated on behalf of us, on behalf of our country, knows the feelings of the Arabs on this question. He knows the massacre of the Palestinians. He knows that their homeland has been
B
taken away. Today killed like cats today we expect countries, We ex Arab countries E export of tea. It buyer of tea. Eve a lot of tea. So these countries to us? Do you expec to help us in our our tea prices h; Our rubber prices Our coconut pr down. In general a have gone down by the actions oft Do you think th are going to assist Let Lus not farge is not the only tea is available. many neW coun having tea plant they are our Cor our duty to proti It is our duty to in such a
al antagonize the A word. The Hon
Muslimi I would ac hawe dona en Cug Muslim communit World. We atë : munity in OLT C just eight per Cef Tako the Count today there are cally every day Tä5E COLIntrie5 America are Laki to an Eagonize t World. They ar. about the dignity of the Arab W we taking this s
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, they are being and dogs. Sir, aid from Arab rect trade with specially in the ad is our biggest in Iran buys quite do you ex PICCC co-operate with t these countries trade? Already ave gone down. hawe gone down. ices hawe gone II produce prices by your actions, his Government. Arab countries Luis lin any Way ? that Sri La mka country where There a Te so tries that are lations now and Tpetitors. It is rect the tea trade. protect our trade her that we do rabs a II ower the Minister, as a cept that Israelis h damage to the y al I ower the a very small compuntry. We are it in this country. res. Where even massacres practiand certain i Tipeike Britain and ing Certain. Ste PS he entire Arab e not concerned and independence 'orld. Why are tep?
rs. Bandaranaike, came into power nt Government to kick out the 24 hours. We Woi - TITO CELI CE9
take the local Hon. Minister of :y and Deputy fence told this the Israelis are on Security Tatremember right l'ency the Prestiewed by a Hong told them that
Israelis were advising us on defence. You will remember Sir and the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affair Will also rollerber a few years ago there was enongh trouba in the Eastern Prow Ince. And who was responsible for this fed that after the Israelis went into the Eastern Pro WinCC they created the rift between the Muslims and Tamils therë. They will not only create a rift
between the Muslims and the Tamils, assure this House today, Sir, but they will greate
rifts ewen between the Sinha lese and the Muslims living in the same villages all over the country.
A Member)
Is that your opinion or opinion of the party?
the
(Mr. Artura Banda Tanaik, c)
That is the opinion
Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
(A Member)
Ut terly irresponsible statement.
of the
(Mr. Anura Bandara naike)
That is your view. I gave the view of the SLFP. Irresponsible Never had the Muslims fought tha Talli 15 before.
(Mr. M. Hallgem Ishak)
Never had the Muslims fought the Tails before.
(Mr. Anura Bandaranai ke)
For the first time this happened.
(Mr. M. Haleem Ishak)
The Muslims disagree Tamils on one question, division of this country.
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(Mr. Anura Bandaran aike)
Never had they fought before
(Mr. M. Haleem Ishak)
Never ! What has happened Eo the Muslimirs? Ewen today
there is a boy called Aliyar in the Pottu will electorate who is | 6 years who will never be able to get up again. He was shot by the Police because he protes
ted against the Israeli Presence in this country. That was in the month of Ramza. He was
coming after evening prayers. feel ai || these things are being done by the Israelis.

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(Mr. Anura Bandaranalike)
How many Muslims were slaughterted in Kalmlumaj?
(Mr. M. Haleem Ishak)
How many Muslims were killed in Kalmunai Who is responsible for this? It is the Israeli presence in this country. I appeal to you, Sir, in the name of God
to advise this Government to send the Israelis away from this country. The more they stay in this country, the more it is gọlng to affect not only the Muslims, but it 5 going to affect every community in this country. It has been proved
beyond doubt that they are the biggest destructors in the whole World. Now I remember that the Hon. Minister of Finance on the Floor House called them ''internationali pariahs...'' The Filmance Minister is historian he is a person who knows these things. (Interruption)- I repeat that again, Sir, and I endorse what the Hon. Minister of Finance said. He called them international pariahs. You are tolerating thern here When there is a division in your own cabinet-Interruption.
(Mr. Anura Bandaranalike)
Sir, with all respect to the Hon. Member, I must say that in his condition of health it is not for him to get excited like this
(Mr. Ya 5 apala i Herath)
I am not getting excited but you hawe made a i glorified SILOFTE
(Mr. Anura Bandaranzike)
Glorified what? Can be slightly more coherent because I cannot hear him?
(Mr. Yası pala Herath)
respect your dynamic leader
ship but not the Party.
(Mr. Anura Bandaranalike)
You were a person who asked for SLFP: nomination for Kala wewa.
How can you talk against the
SLFP now? And you were not
gi"Wer1 l nomin tig. You were
rejected.
(Mr. M. Haleem Ishak)
Correct. I know as I was
there.
(Mr. Yasapala Herat You asked me
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Today you are or Indian personi bilitation camps are not doing it spending large si You have spent money. Have the properly treated to tell you that tries like Egypt extremely good camps and hospit extremely friendl
(Mr. Anura Bastian)
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(A Member)
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(Mr. M. Haleem. Isha
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(Mr. An Lura Bastian)
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(Mr. M. Haleem. Isha
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(Mr. Anura Bastian)
Sir, it is a fact.
(Mr. M. Haleem Ishak)
Egypt is a country with experience. They have faced so many wars, They have extremely good hospitals and rehabilitation camps. At Egypt is one of our friends. ii. They are one of our buyers of tea. Why cannot the
Government send these armed troops who have been injured to a country like Egypt? I would like to ask whether Egypt has
rejected.
(Mr. Anura Bastian)
Why do you not a Trangements?
(Mr. M. Haleem Ishak)
Certainly, You kindly contact the Egyptian Embassy. They will Tā ke the arrangements.-Interruption. You are paying large, fat bills to the Israelis.
Take som
(Mr. Anurn Bastian)
We will pay any price to any. body to help us.
(Mr. M. Halcem Ishak)
You have already paid the Pice of international antagonism. We are all paying the price. Whilst being in the opposition
also. We are paying the PTICe. Day by day the connection be ween lsrael and Sri Lanka is
getting Streng Eohned.
I would like to posa another question to the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs. I posed a Suestion earlier also. I would like to have a definite reply as to whether the Government has agreed to open an Israeli Embassy In Sri Lanka. This is a serious Thatter. I hope you w III take note of what I have asked and give me a reply tomorrow.
Then, Sir, recently the Muslims of our country have had discus
sons at various levels. They are concerned not only about the Present position but about the
Incidents that took place in the Eastern Province. The Muslim are seriously considering whether this is donė not only to antagonize the Muslims 5f our coun
try but to antagonize the Arabs of the World.
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Where the Arab Embassy is concerned, even in a country like the Philippines, where the
Muslims minority is smallthink in South of Manila - they have protested about this. They have protested about the President going to Singapore, and als o the wist of the President to the Philippines had been postponed. So it countries of the ASEAN region who are very close to the United States could take positive steps and make declarations of this nature, what is the great hurry for us to en tertain and hawe the President of Israel as the host of our Government? What is the necessity? How has the ethnic position improved after the Israelis came here I would say it only aggravated the situation. According to the statement made 靴 His Excellency the Indian Hig Commissioner in Sri Lanka, they are very concerned about the situation. As the Hon. Leader of the OP Position very correctly mentioned, you are depending on India for solution. Depending on India for a solution, the President goes makes appealing speeches at SAARC. listened to his speech made over the television and the radio. He even spoke of the connections he had with Jawaharlal Nehru; Mrs. Gandhi, the Late Mahathma Gandhi and so many other leaders and tried to te || India that we are their friends. But what are you doing today? By inviting the President of Israel are you not antagonizing India? India is concerned. Do you think that Mr. Dixit made this state Them . without consulting the Foreign Ministry? He must have been instructed by the Government of India. Sa I appeal to the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs
and the Government to recorsider this matter. It is not too late even now to ask these people to get away.
(Mr. Anura Bastian)
The relations between India and Sri Lanka, between this
Government and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, are so close that in fact Mr. Gandhi said he will only negotiate with the Govern
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(Mr. M. Halleerin Ishak)
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paper continues to say :
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like to know - We to know and the country is entitled to know - what this useful business Was that the President of Israel and His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka discussed. Do you not think that we are entitled as Members of Parliament, and through US the country, to know what this useful business - (Interruption). We are entitled to that. You hawe been doing this private thinking and private negotiations right along. You have been carrying on regardless. You are not concerned about Public opinion. You are not concerned about World opinion. You are not concerned about antoganizing our friends. You are not concerned about our trade. You are not concerned about the economy of this country. You ara not Concerned about the Muslims although the majority of the Muslims voted for you.
(bErוחA Me)
They are with us.
(Mr. Anura Bandarannike)
That is what you think.
(Mr, M. Haleem Ishak)
The majority of the Muslims voted for you at the last General Election. I say this as a Muslim. What did your President say at the John de Silwa Memoria || Hall ? He said, "If you disagree with me about bringing the Israelis here and opening up an Israeli Intercestis Section here, you Cän leave the United National Party." That is what he told the Muslims of this country through the Working Committee of the United National Party. I do not think you have any right to go before the Muslims and tell them -
(A Member)
This is the discipline we have in our party - (Interruption). (Mr. M. Haleem Ishak)
That is the discipline you have? | think all these years the letters of discipline were in the pocket?
I would are entitled
t wisסח סI d mote time, Sir toappeal tot and especially Minister of For the name of G Israelis a way. Yol the entire Ara hawe brought C. country and t about more diw a mongst the cor country - let it Sinhalese and t a Wern the Tarri 15 We hawe beetli | With all the co, Wil | Teate To T and our country very badly.
Thank you, Sir
(Mr. Lakshman Jaya Mr. Chairman, sorry that the Kaduwela had go cept mixed up. to do in this e. Member for Gär our side. To speech that has without any cohet | dö nöt ||ke ti because I Will time or Wht | on the subject i
As you are a Leader of the quite correctly strongly the polic Freedom Party, the Sri Lanka Fre
to power, with hours, they will is to leave this
is a pronouncemi be carried out to Prior to the Hol dissLI5sion, Sir", that cettain disci place between and some of th of our governme originally Genera discussions with G there was anothe Abraham Prims ch Office and had Mr. Shamir had Mr. Hameed in he has not yet why he did it and at that discussio it all, we hawe

h to take any I would like ם חם וחחha Gover
to the Hom. eign Affairs, in iod chase these I hawe antagonized b world. They lisaster to oLunt ..hey will bring "isions ard rifts TITunities in OLIT
be between the he Muslims or and the Mus||5. ivlпg Iп harmoпу mmunities. They : trouble for us.
Will be affected
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I am extremely -Hon. Me Tiber for the Whole coChina has nothing uation, the hon. inpaha is not on ly mind it is a been made here "ence. Therefore, deal. With that pse a lot of my hawe got to say self.
Ware, the hon. Opposition has laid down very y of the Sri Lanka namely, that if dom Party Comes in twenty four ask the Israel country. This TE WHICH Would the yery letter. "zog-Jayawardene 2. 'E TE TE Lissions did take eaders of Israel e leading lights mt. Thers wä5 | AWo who häd i eneral Attygalle; occasion where The to the Foreign His scussion here: discussion 5 With New York and explained as to what transpired n. And to cap now found the
Head of State of Israel meeting tho Head of State of Sri Lanka. I do not know why all these things are kept secret this is one question that everyone is baffled about it.
I am made to understand that even the Foreign office perhaps did not know the date, time and the occasion and the place of the discussions between Mr. Herzog and our President. Everything was kept secret. If it was kept a secret for security reasons I can understand, but to my mind it seems that they kept secret all the discussions that took place in this country. The first reaction as a result was this: An angry India. The second reaction Was that the Middle East started questioning about the purchase of tea; and the third reaction was that the Middle East was considering whether they were going take our workers or not. Even the question of remittance of money from the Middle East will be question ed and it may come LP on a later date. They say that they were having the discussions for the benefit of Sri Lanka and for the benefit of the people of ,untryםthis c
Let US a SSL me that the wat is ower. If tha war is ower, I would like to know what role the Israelis hawe got to Play in this country? Are they here to help us in the War, to give us intelligence, to give us help in all the other activities ? What is the role that they have got to play here?
Recently, you will remember, there was a map of the Eastern Province where there is a strong Muslim population. I am made to understand that it is the 5 raelis who wanted this part of the Eastern Province divided in to racist areas called Sinhala, Muslim and Tami areas. I would like the Hon. Minister to check up on that because it is not going to be racist only, but it is going to be religious provincial councils that are going to be set up. It is not linguistic. So, this is the first time that the idea of religion is going into this whole question. Obviously, because when you divide between

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(Mr. A. C. S. Hameed)
It is not linguistic, but would yolu Support a linguistic di wis on?
(Mr. Lakshman Jayakody)
We will consider everything when We come into power. Not only that when I saw the equation of what you want to say: when it comes to Muslims, it is religious; where Tamils are concerned it is not religious, it can be Hindu, IL Can BC Christir. Where SinLLLGK LLC LLLLLLLLL S SS S SS S SS LLLL religious; it can be Catholic, it can be Christian and it can be Buddhist. Therefore, I cannot sco the equation of breaking it up. I am made to understand that this is a theory that has been Pro Pounded by Israelis, not only
in this country but throughout the world.
Sir, you can remember that
there was a Jewish Group called "Terror W5, Terror" which was the hit squad against Muslims of the world. They were famous for blowing up Islamic places of worship - (Interruption). Yes, including Palestine refugee camps. Then there was also another group where Israelis used, Al Dawa, which was against the Shi'a Muslim grouping, which was a 100 per cent Shi'a Muslim Organisation. Then there was another group called Amal, the hope group. There was also a group called Hizballa group. In Iraq there was another group which was supported by Israelis called the Iraqi Islamic Revolution opposing Saddam Hussain. Now, there are the Shi'a groups that have been supported by Israel. There are also other Sunni groups that are being supported by Israel to bring about Shia-Sunn conformation. There is also this Thousip Group of the Sunni grouping, Where the Islamic Unification Movement Is Wery strongly represented. They are the people who are propagating fundamentalism in al parts of the World.
Locking into the whole problem of division of this country, we are made to understand that this country has been divided into two, il tı parla The of de yolu tlrı 155 3mid anti-devolutionists. Who are the de wolutionist5 ? Who Want de wolution to be given in this country?
22
You take India. }wסdevolve p סt the for PLOT et of Sri La for That of the de te fill of the Te. In the Cg the Western bla under that. Th Whole lot of LT and others. Th CWC. Then yol the International Free Trade Union to di Wide thi 5 : devolve Power quently to divid
Sir, there are World Who do I divided Chirla to be divided. say, do not wa Be diwid oed. Thi non-aligned coun kaח55r1. La חחraיו any devolution to are African. Third - (Interruption). dcvolutiem. I h: whicro II should b fore, we have L that once a diwi a separatiоп, апу חEaוח 1t וחסaLiם never jain Up af pened to India w and created Pakis to Pakistan, to G
to Cy For LIS. It all. The only see is Wietnam.
Tust find out WF profess this ide Tather than centri that in a good (Interruption). Th rence. Sir, we in this country. to go through t of centralization. country during Government a sys
Lil WWIL Weir de wolwe, We de W. Local (GoW TITI
Municipalities,
Town Councils, a cils. Through th: anything what in this country15 not Prawici C:E-E if of you authority. T of devolution.

They want us er through PLOT, to the Gowerka. That is one Wolutionists. The devolutionists is untry. You get c. You get MGR. en you get the TE EROS, EPRLF en you get the u get the ICFTU, confederation of s. They all want ountry: first to and then subse
Countries in tha co wish Luis to be do mot Walt Luis
Pakistan, Tust Int SFI Lanka to
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tries who do not to be di Wided or be given. There World Countrics I am talking of ave placed India e placed. Thereto think in te TT15 sion Lake5 place, format of demars that you will jain. It has hap"hern their diwided էan. It happened er many, to Korea, will happen to #xemption I caп Therefore, we ether those who of devolution Ilization are doing faith or not -- ere is a big diffead centralization | do not wat he whole aspect We had in our the time of our tem of Centralizawe wanted to lved through the ent Authorities, Urban Councils, nd Willage Counat set-up, de wolwe the Tarı ils wat — (Interruption). It Councils. The sters must give that is one format
(Mr. A. C. S. Hameed)
The Provincial Councils are also local authorities.
(Mt. LakshirTian Jayaklady)
They are not. This is the point, Sir. What we say is that the day you give the Provincial ဠိ၌ူမျိုး It Wri || Ee the first step for the break-up of this country. This is the difference. Already you gave the District Development Councils and that became the first step for så in his country. What happene a tha DDC electior 15 ?
(MF. A. C. S. Ha Tegd)
You contested the elections.
(Mr. Lakshman Jayzkody)
We did not Contest because We knew that the first step would be the fight. We knew that if we participated there would be a problem there.
(Mr. A. C. S. Hameed)
Two candidates Wete the rollinations.
(Mr. Lakshman Jayakody)
We withdrew everyone, Sir. Our position was very clear. Ultimately, what happened in Jaffna, in the North? It is a no-go area now. No one can go to that place. The same thing will happen in the Eastern Province. I know It is going to happen very soon. The idea of unification is 蠶 lip service. It is only a Word. This idea of a united Sri Lanka or a unitary Sri Lanka will be confined only to the Constitution. In operation it will never happen. Therefore I feel that one has to be extra careful whether We are
late for
going to have in this country wars by Proxy. That is what feet. There will be the Tamil sector, the Sinha lese sector and
the Muslim sector. Once divided, the Tamil sector will be supported
perhaps by Singapore, Britian, South India, Mauritius, Fiji and so on. The the Muslim sector
may be supported by Iran, Libiya, Nigeria, Syria Iraq
(The Deputy Chairman of Committees)
Order, please! The Sitting is suspended till 1.30 p.m.
Sitting accordingly suspended til II (30 p.n.
in then resuried...MR. DEPUTY SPEAKER (MR. NORMAN WAIDYARATNE) in the
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D, E. W. Guna sekera (Kalawana)
Then, Sir, com Eng to the specific question that surfaced in the course of the Debate, on behalf of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka and also on behalf of the entire left movement, must express(Interruption). The entire left move
ment including the SLMP, the LSSP and all other left forces. must say that we strongly
condemn the attitude the Gowenment has taken in regard to Israel. A number of Hon. Members from the Government side tried to make out that our country had relations with Israel in the 1960s. But, Sir, I wish to point out that hon. Members hawe forgotten the fact that there had been three wars as far as Israel Was concerned in the years 1963-64s 1967-68 and 1973-74. The Middle East question came to a Crisis, a climax, after the 1967 war, and as a result most of the contries - not only our country but Practically all the socialist countries, the entre Third World Countries and the entre Non-Aignad countries - broke relations with Israel - (Interruption). In due course w II answer that. I knew that you would take it up. The Soviet Union does not have any diplomatic relations with Israel.
A Member)
All right, have the dissussions.
(Mr. Dew Guna sekara)
Haye discussions for what? This is the question.-(Interruption). Today the Middle East question Carll not be so I wedi Without the participation of the United States KLL LLKS LLLLS S SS LLLLLL L LLLLLLLKL wawe to be there. Therefore, for that purpose, to satisfy the requirement of the Palestinian Peole, certain negotiative Processes to take place. To that extent they take part. In fact the Soviet Union, I will remind the hon. Member, recognized Israel as early as 1984, and they said the right of existence for Israel should be given. That was as 1948 - (Interruption). That is another question. You will| hawe to accept, the realities that exist now. The entire Third World, the Non-Aligned Movement, all the countries are against Israel because you Carl Tot forget the fact that the Palestinian
people for the la are without a h Minister of foreig that better thana present generatio of refugees. The duty not only to own domestic po national duty to who hawe been || camps for the la: have their homes is why that pring foreign policy W. United Front Gow as early as 1970, rect position. A has been windicate you have taken
degrees right tur
(Mr. Deputy Speake
Order, please
rupting him, allic
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(A Member)
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(Mr. Dew Guinaseka If you do not | וח וחסIt fr חarם| rLuption). The i ot worse than the | th|; | Fr1LI 5L. Leader of the C the United Stit France, and t Common Weath Rosolution, and and Oman are th which backed the nt on this quבווח days back. It is insult to humanity to civilization, Sri Lanka people espousing-(InterrLI fight, on the on self-dater ITinatio ward people in Africa, on the WWe Wat and help them : solidarity for Se
here We join powers. It is a share and it is
we should hawe jo Goverriment ag: which belongs t six fighting, one Teles of Movement which ditāts āt rīte, a back Colone

st 40 odd years e T.H. Affairs kW 5 yone else. Their n is a generation Irefore, it is our , ook after Our ics. It is our sc that those wing in refugee st 40 odd years restored. That tipled position in as taken by the 'ernment as early and that is a cortnd that position over now, and a complete 80 "n-(Interruption).
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Without interw him to Wind
i refugees also.
ra) know the history, speech-(Interher question is Israel question. terrect even the 2pposition. Even as of America, link the entite woted for the Sri Lanka, Belize e three countries Thatcher Govern
estion just two a disgrace and It is an insult
an insult to the who hawe been ption). When we e hand, for the of the backLatin America, in A5 in CCT tiñ 2 fit, to fight for them and extend out |F-22 Titi
the imperialist insult, it is a a disgrace that ned the Thatch.cr. a inst Argentina to the group of of the formidable he Non-aligned ower threw three Some time back s of the military
dictatorship were over thrown by the democratic people there and today democracy is thriving and it is springing up in the Argentina soil. And when such a country, is trying to take back the Falklands which had been taken by force by the British Imperialist, our Government had the audacity to go and join these blood-thirsty imperialists and suppot the Thatcher Government as against the Third World Argentina government. It is an insult, it is a disgrace, and you will hawe to accept it that it is a disgrace and an insult.
Mr. Deputy Speaker)
Order, please ! How much more time will you need 2
(A Member)
Communist people, are they not blood-thirsty 2
Mr. Dew Guinasekira)
Finally I must say that even a British imperialist writer comments that he saw a big diplomatic victory for Argentina over Britain. 16 countries voted for tha Resolution and Ehara Warc 34 abstentions. Today I think Sri Lanka's role, it's des picable role, w II have to be vehemently condemned on the Floor of thi5 House. Sir, I wind up with that.
(Mr. A. C. S. Hameed - Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Mr. Deputy Chairman, first of a || || wish to thanka || hon. Members who participated in this Debate. In fact, I agree to the Hon. District Minister for Galle being given more time in the hope that the hon. Leader of the Oppošiltion would by then be here. I am happy to see him here because since he opened the Debate and presented his case withh is usual charm, thought it would be good if he Was here toistetorne.
On the Debate itself, I was wondering how the Debate would have gone if not for two developments. Both developments took place this week. One was the wisit of the Israeli President to Sri Lanka on the 20th of this month, and the other was the vote on the Falklands which took place on the 26th of this month. Really, within a week these two
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developments took place. If not for these two developments, was wondering what the Debate would hawe been || ke because the Debate has concentrated on these two specific issues, one, the Wisit of the Israeli President and the other the wote on the Falklands. Except for the hon. Member for Matugama (Mr. Anil Moonesinghe) who touched marginally on the question of publicity, these Were the two issues. If these two events had not taken place there would hardly have been a debate.
(Mr. Lakshman Jayakady)
There would not hawe been ewen
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(Mr. A. C. S. Hameed)
There would have hardly been a debate because these things did not take place I cannot see how the Debate would hawe developed.
The hon. Leader of the COPPOS 1tion made sweeping statement. He said that there has been an about-turn in the foreign policy
of this country. I say it is a sweeping statement because to assess and pas 5 judgmen L or a
werd ligt om whether there has been an about-turn in the foreign polic of this country you have to loo at our track record for the last 德 You hawe . La lock at the bilateral relation ; you hawe to look at the voting pattern of the government in the United Nations, at the Nou-Aligned Meetings and in various other international forums, and it is only then that you can come Eo a decision or assessment and say whether there has been an aboutturn in the foreign policy of a of a country.
The Hon. Leader of the Opposition certainly spoke with conviction – respect hi5 Conviction. But at the same time he spoke with an eye to the next election. He was conscious of the fact that there is a substantial Muslim Voting population in this country and that they have predominantly, or think a majority of them hawe been wat ing for the golwen Trent. So, I think, the very shrewd, calculating far thinking politician
he is, he had his eye on the next election, perhaps, within the next two years. I do not
іп апу Way uni strategy; he was who knows that or a P Pro PrilatČ E. shot at his ta day. So he ti two years ahead thought: "Suppo: on a windy day mot be the TC
Win-d' Therefo two years' tim placed his strati
Now, Sir, dip with Israel Were
think, 1956 there had been, visit of a sare in 1955-57. Anc: being taken a rol M. C.P. de Silva He War III || 96Y Lanka Freedom Electors in ||7 diplomatic relati
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to the rest of trying to under: of the goverrin government of daranaike's gove sewer di Folomati suspended them, diplomatic ties complete lack | O | ff || FO o SLFP time, the best Wei en Sri Li There Was tra two private 5eCI to this count Israelis came he for an internati touris Ti. So w F 970 Wis 55 Tlalt Las betWe
Israel. Now w that we had t Israel coming
we had diplom we had a Head LIs them there å It is that We We have Ehe : guard of honour сегепопу апd І: mique at the A || What wa di 5 the Preside who is passing and he wants Let us forget t

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remember his Ind by the late 1. Anyway, after , when the Sri Party won the they suspended ons with Israel. Freedom Party diplomatic ties. important thing the argument in stand the position ent. The SLFP 1970, Mrs. BanFilment, did not c ties: it only It only suspended It was not a contact. In fact 1977 during the "El WET Coll CES inka and Israel. He between the ors. Israelis came ry as tourists; refact
onā|| con 55 LIS COT at happened in pension of diplo en Sri Lanka Tid hat happened Was he President of o Sri Lanka. If El ties and if of State Wisi ting re cert La in formahad to follow. irrival ceremony, , the departure Sue of a col TuErld of the visit. id was this. Here nt of a country through Sri Lanka to come here. he technical staff.
Let us say he wants to come here and we could not say no because we have only suspended diplomatic ties and then he came. The common courtesy is that a Minister meets him. He had an Uroficial lunch with His Excellency the President. It was not a banquet as such. Then he goes off and there is no communique. Now, the point that I want to make is, if diplomatic ties were severed in 1970 and if we had agreed to the wist of the Israa|| President ewen om a law key notic, then you could have said that it is wrong. Then the conten tillon of the speech of the Hon. Leader of the Opposition would have been relevant and appropriate and correct. But WO had not sa wered diplomatic ties. We had only suspended the diplomatic ties. Then the hon. Leader of the OpPosition read from the 'Sun' paper and the "Island", the comments given. They had quoted some officia from the |staca|| Interest Section. That is mot a Gowerm le areקסique. Peחשוחוחסment C free to say whether they are satisfied or not satisfied they are happy or unhappy. They could say all that, but the point is EHAE when He left thera wa5 an Government Communique. We were quite conscious of the fact at what level this Wisit should ble Placed, what limitation should apply to this visit. We were quite conscious of all that, So, that is how this visit took place.
Now, I Sİnt, the argument went very much further. He said that this is an about-turn in our policy and this about-turn policy was the basis of the two arguments. One Wa5 the Wisi E of the President of Israel and the other was the wote on the Falklands i 55 Le. When the Israe|| President came herte il said that we treated it on the footing that it is not a State visit. We Were asked, "You met the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel. WWE E'
Now, Sir I Want to remind the House that there are many things that are happening in the world today. Diplomacy and approach to diplomacy is something that keeps changing and fits into the time It is being practised. Lots of people are talking today, many countries

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are talking to one another, countriar who are not friends, countries who hawe opposing wiew5, counEtias Who TCE 3 Confro Etioli 5: level, they are talking, may not be openly, they are talking secretly. There are many countries helping in this process to see whether issues can be solved, Say, for example, a place like Morocco, King Hassan received
LK SLSLSSL S LLSLLLK aLLLL LLLLLS LLLLLH Peres. They have no diplomatic tigs. Or Lake President oubäräk. He continues to talk. They have established diplomatic ties. The Soviet Union is talking to Israel. know about what they are talking too. I do not want to say it on Laa LLLlaL L LL aaLS LLLLLLLLSS SLL LCLaL
ou cannot say that the Soviet
nion or Morocco or Egypt - these are important Arab countries - hawe sold the Palestian causa down the river Nile. You connot say that - (Interruption). But that is a different matter. But in your own speeches a lot of complimentary adjectives were used regarding Eygpt. Let us not talk of individual countreas. But the fact. Te Tai F15 that people are taking. The Soviet Union has, and the Socialist Countries hawe registered their solidarity to the Palestian cause.
Now, Sir, what I want to say is we have not thrown overboard our commitment to the Arab LLLLLS S LLLL SS LLCLHHLLLLaLLLLSS LL L aaL cause of the Palestinian people remains Lunchanged. The crux of
the question is is Sri Lanka going
to re-establish diplomatic ties with Israel? And I say that Sri Lanka is not going to re-establish diplomatic ties with Israel. If we had re-established diplomatic ties with Israel, I would say again that all what the Leader of the OppoSi Lion said this morning is correct, apt and precise. But we hawe not established diplomatic ties. Over and over again, since the establishment of the Israel Interests section, there have been a number of occasions when I had to speak at Warious international forus and we have reiterated our support, our commitment to the Palestinian People. Therefore, people cannot have one yardstick for Moscow and one yardstick for Sri Lanka. The same yardstick that applies for Moscow also applies
to r Lāgā. Eate Certain immer talk to 15 Tael, ar But thi 5 doa 5 m. position towards cause has change you, Sir, that country can cla חly Iסקסחסוח leס5 the =ãüşg C'f tha F; | know tha Sri Party's commitm We committed.
(Mr. Anura Bandara How come tha lated from the re.
(Mr. A. C. 5. Hame No, no, that haye to take, for the applicatior of self-deterial text of de Coloni; year if we abst: Would hawe asket vote last year? amendment las year there was If there was an year we could the amendment : the resolution. lutely logical.
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(Mr. Anura Bandara naike)
How are you going to differentiate that
(Mr. A. C. S. Ha meed)
No, because it is on the same Principle that we supported Zimbawe, it is on the same principle that we support Namibia o: It is the same principle we apply in supporting the Palestinian people. Because of the same principle we support the people in New Caldonia. It is nothing new.
(Mr. Lakshman layakody)
This is for small people but not for the ibig people.
(Mr. A. C. S. Hameed)
It is the application of a principle that We feel We should stand by. Now your argument is right, because you say this decision was taken because of national considerations. The Leader of the Opposition this morning maintained over and over that a country has no permanent friends but only permanent interests. Now look at what happened during your time. Take one or two examples.
Now at us take 1975. East Timor - what happened? In the Committee in November you voted for the Resolution. The Hon. Prime Minister then, Mrs. Bandaranake, your distinguished mother, was going to Indonesia in January. Having voted for in Committee in the United Nations in November, in December you abstained. You say we took one year to adjust. You adjusted within a month - (Interruption). I do not blame you for that. The ITG ate certain situations that develop and the Government must be flexible in the application of its foreign policy, I do not balme you for that.
Now take what happened in 1956, when there was the Soviet intervention in Hungary. A Committee was appointed by the International Commission of Jurists
and Sri Lanka was one of the members. The report CaTie out and the report was absolutely
critical of the Soviet Union. In | 956 in November the then distinguished Prime Minister of this country, Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, your dinstinguished father, went to the United Nations; and what happened in the vote?
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peace wherein a nation united and free can work for its progrees."
The cease-fire accord has been widely viewed as a major political Victory for Mrs. Aquino.
While both sides hailed the peaco accord as a major victory, the enthusiasm was muted by the knowledge that the next phase of the talks - the substantive negotiations to find a peaceful end to the guerrilla war - would be far
To di fil-L || E.
Under the ter T5 of the Euce, the talks will begin within 30 days.
"" || Hawe, no doubt that the succeeding phase of the negotiations will be even more difficult." Mr. Mitra said, "but on substantive issues, we might have some com".undסgr חסm
Mr. Ocampo agreed the la Eer talks "Will be Tore difficut' but added that he was optimistic.
Both Sides en ter the ens uing Peace talks with opposing positions that at this early stage seem
virtually Irrecont Tunist5 are eXF |ea5 t sorm1e shar power as the
down their arm Aquino has categ
The Communi: ted to pre55 demand for the American milita sion the Aquin unlikely to mak
Mr. Ocampo F that the rebels part of a cea go Wern Tert gitar tes territoria : areas of the co
But the truce ower that and oth indicating that made significant the a5t 5ey eta | to gain a truce
For examplet agreement make previous rebel military disman
Polis Commissioner’s . . .
(Continued from page 9)
In the Words of the Elections Commissioner, "one of the issues which Created a CGF II nuo L5 furore was the liberal display of Referendum symbols in gross violation of Section 50 (II) of the Referendum Act." He calls this a ""very Un Pleasant''feature at the Referendum. To permit them to conEl nues the display, he says, ''was an affront to the law'.
Unclean Hands
"Apprehension of persons resPons I ble for the displaying of symbols was few. Why were detections difficult 2. The display of symbols was illegal. Everyone admitted it. Law enforcement authorities Could hawe simply removed them and if anyone objected it Wä5. Tot difficult to hay Tesisted such objections and even prosecuted the Tl, beca LISe those WEh unclean hands have no justice to seek. In fact the Commissioner advised the police to do so. Question remains as to why this
simple course of taken."
Crude Consister
Law abiding cl וner, aסmissiוחסC fact that after years of complia frame-work of L to be wolated consistency."
Tho law a bildir see it as a car the law. It is b dos he aso se lated disregard law on the part convinced that Would not take
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tible. The Comjected to Want at e of government
price for laying 5, something Mrs. orically ruled out.
sts are also expectheir longstanding
dismantling of the ry bases, a conces|o government is 다.
iad said previously
would de land 5 se-fire that the it Cortunist forontrol of certain Un trTY.
agreement skirted her sticking points, the rebel sidic has COTICE55 i 15 OWE" weeks in order
the five-page truce 5 miloj en tion of a demand that the |:|E '|leter|GLIs'
units of the paramilitary Civilian Homo Defensa. Force. The arm has relied on those units, whic are basically armed civilian militias, to bolster troop strength in key villages. But the largy untrained troops have also been widely cited for abusing human rights.
The truce document says that during the period of a cease-fire, the army small 'disarm and punish abusive members and units in the field, including abusive CHDF.' In return, according to the truce document, the Communists agree to disarm and punish their abusive members and LumitS.
The military is also allowed to continue its patrols in areas under nominal "control" of the communist guerrillas.
The pact calls for the establishment of a five-member National Cease-Fire Committee to monitor the truce and Investigate Complaints of violations by either side. That panel will also set up local or regional cease-fire committee in a reas of heavy fighting.
action was not
Cy
tizens, says the te baffled by the early twenty two ince With in the he law it came With such "crude
ig citizen "may us disregard of ad enough. But it as a calcuto observe the of wrong doers the authorities action.'"
Osal to extent ment was made ir t. Dos hic sce
when the law Critics, Who knew חם חוחם וחחWGrסG) . tained any fear be is understood
cers and the reom taking action Symbols 2"
Blattant Wio lation
"The blame', says the Commissioner, "has to be barne by those who blatantly violated it in an induced climate of the near inaction on the part of the law enforcement authorities . . . The wrong doer has to be condemned for the wrong done".
Commi55ione da Silva Tecord5 the allegations that Polling Obserwers who managed to reach the polling stations found it imprudent to stay. He says: "All the precautions taken prior to a poll can be negated, if with in the crucial nine hour poriod of the poll the freedom of the voter is qualified or den i ed.
"At legations were made that certain Poling Observers were not either able to reach their polling stations in time, or having arrived at ther polling stations discovered after some time that it was not prudent to continue to stay"
To the extent that grievances remain without effective redress,
(Continued on Page 28)
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Jaffna's
Paul Seabright
in til recently the labour sur Plus
has been due entirely to a fa II in demand, but in flows of refugees from Vavuniya and the Eastern province in recent months cun like the post-1983 influx which consisted primarily of those engaged in urban occupations) may add to labour supply unless resettlement is possible at an early date. It is symptomatic of the Pervasiveness of economic disruption in conditions of physical insecurity that while only two members of the RLU are reported to hawe been killed by the security forces, the remainder of the membership has seen its real earnings so heavily reduced. While there may be some exaggeration in the figures reported to me, their general eval is certainly not implausible in the light of what is known about the decline in cultivation 1|| 1, In the face of these changes farmers and laborers hawe few resources to fall back upon. New bank credit has effectively ceased In Jaffna, and banks have ceased making cash payments (due to the high incidence of bank robberies in 1983 and 1984). Informal credit markets do not appear to have compensated for this: despite a rise in reported "normal' interest rate5 from 3 per cent per month to 5 per cent per month, amounts of Credit advanced are sald to have declined?. This is of course an impressionistic judgment, but It accords. With what one might expect given the diminished availability of cash and the un predictability of the borrower risks involved. If accurate, such a finding contrasts. With the common tendency of informal credit markets to increase the volume of credit at lean times of the agricultural year, a discrepancy that Prompts the following hypothesis about the discontinuity between "normal' and 'abnormal" conditions: (a) in "normal" time when borrow er risk is relatively well known to the ender, credit Volume is demanddetermined along a rising supply curve, with higher demand raising both volume and interest rates
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have to be transferred or that yield consumption benefits only at cost.
(To be continued)
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interest - it keeps con rising. -
54 a 5, I corrected.
Poi 5 Cortimissioner's , , .
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Raad In addition to the Wolations of the law and the climate of fear the Cornmissioner of Elections also records the fact that the Secretary of a recognised political party was held in remand during the conduct of the Referendurn. A State of Emergency was also continued during the conduct of the poll.
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