Sri Lanka’s new foreign policy to focus Asian centric middle path: President

Sep 01, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s new unity government will focus on building an Asian centric middle path as the foreign policy of the country, President said.

“Openness and friendliness will be the base of our foreign policy. This is the century of the Asia; So from now my government will be more focus on Asian centric middle path.”

President Maithripala Sirisena was presenting the statement of government policy at the ceremonial sittings of the Parliament today evening.

President Sirisena added that he is to employ new policies based on his election manifesto while taking into consideration other election manifesto’s of the 2015 general election.

“Sri Lanka enters an era of consensual politics with the new Government,” President said.

“When preparing order paper of the new unity government my election manifesto will be the base,”

“Manifesto’s presented by major political parties in the Parliament at the recent elections have already been compared with my manifesto,”

“So I’ll prepare new government’s policies using the proposals go in line with my manifesto’s good governance framework.” President said.

President also described the national economic development agenda of the new government.

“The main task of the Government is to achieve rapid development and reconciliation,” President said.

“If we’re to rise as the modern Sri Lankan nation, we have to get rid of harmful feudal residues.”