By Nalin de Silva Norwegian Foreign Minister, Mr. Knut Vollebaek is supposed to come to Sri Lanka on the invitation of Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar. In 1987, the then president Mr. J. R. Jayewardane invited the Indian Peace Keeping Force to come to Sri Lanka under the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement even before the public came to know of the contents of the agreement.
Invitations are sometimes only on paper.
Sri Lanka is suffering not because we are a small country. We have to stomach all these insults, as our political leaders are not big. They can only terrorise, their colleagues to give in the letters of resignation, not to mention the innocent and powerless Punchisinnos and citizen Pereras, but cannot stand up to the big bullies in international politics. In the house of lords in Britain one of the members had requested those concerned to persuade Prabhakaran to come to the negotiating table. Instead of helping the Sri Lankan government to defeat the LTTE militarily these western European countries want the government to agree to talks on Prabhakaran's conditions.