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China tells TNA it won’t interfere in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs
View(s):A request by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to the Chinese government to use its good offices to convince the Sri Lankan government to find an early political settlement to the ethnic issue has been turned down by Beijing’s representative in Colombo.
A five-member TNA delegation led by its Parliamentary Group Leader R. Sampanthan made the request when they met Chinese Ambassador Wu Jianghao.
Mr. Sampanthan told the Sunday Times last night the delegation met the ambassador after the party received an invitation from him for a discussion on the TNA’s recent talks with Indian leaders among other issues.
“Since China is assisting Sri Lanka in several projects, it should use its good offices to convince the Government to find an early settlement,” Mr. Sampanthan said.
“Many countries have tried to help us to facilitate talks with the Government to find a meaningful solution. Therefore we asked China too to assist in this process,” he said.
However, the ambassador responded saying that China would not be able to do that because Beijing’s policy was not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.
TNA parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran who also took part in the talks said the ambassador told them that China’s assistance was given to the country and it was not based on any ethnic consideration.
He said the TNA delegation also discussed China’s assistance to Sri Lanka to modernise naval facilities.
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