Sri Lanka denies arrival of any foreign troops for the security of visiting heads of states
Sri Lanka denied yesterday the news reports about the arrival of the elite Indian and Afghanistan troops for the special security of Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Indian delegation and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.
A highly placed Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry official flatly denied those reports appearing in a section of the Sri Lankan newspapers that 3000 elite Indian troops are coming from India to give security to Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Indian delegation coming to participate in the 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) scheduled to take place from July 27 to August 3, in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo.
Furthermore, news paper reports revealed that President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan is also arriving with a pose of his elite commandos for his personal security in Colombo.
A section of the Sri Lankan press at the height of their imagination came up with reports that 1500 India’s elite forces have already arrived in Colombo and balances are expected shortly.
Sri Lanka foreign ministry official speaking to Asian Tribune said these are fabrication and there is no truth behind these reports.
He added that it must be pointed out that even our President Mahinda Rajapakse when he visits to Rome or London or any other countries, he too use to take his own personal security officers for his own security arrangements. He added that Head of states use to take their own security staffs whenever they visit foreign countries and this practice has already become a mandatory security requirement after the 9/11 incident.
In an interview with a news agency, Sri Lanka's military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara has also concurred that 'Not only India, all the other leaders will also bring their own security personnel for their own security. This is a common practice everywhere. But we have our own special security arrangements for the SAARC summit as a whole.'
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A highly placed Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry official flatly denied those reports appearing in a section of the Sri Lankan newspapers that 3000 elite Indian troops are coming from India to give security to Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Indian delegation coming to participate in the 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) scheduled to take place from July 27 to August 3, in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo.
Furthermore, news paper reports revealed that President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan is also arriving with a pose of his elite commandos for his personal security in Colombo.
A section of the Sri Lankan press at the height of their imagination came up with reports that 1500 India’s elite forces have already arrived in Colombo and balances are expected shortly.
Sri Lanka foreign ministry official speaking to Asian Tribune said these are fabrication and there is no truth behind these reports.
He added that it must be pointed out that even our President Mahinda Rajapakse when he visits to Rome or London or any other countries, he too use to take his own personal security officers for his own security arrangements. He added that Head of states use to take their own security staffs whenever they visit foreign countries and this practice has already become a mandatory security requirement after the 9/11 incident.
In an interview with a news agency, Sri Lanka's military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara has also concurred that 'Not only India, all the other leaders will also bring their own security personnel for their own security. This is a common practice everywhere. But we have our own special security arrangements for the SAARC summit as a whole.'
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http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/11994
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