{"id":104432,"date":"2020-07-12T18:37:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T01:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104432"},"modified":"2020-07-12T18:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T01:37:26","slug":"an-open-letter-to-ms-alaina-teplitz-of-the-us-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/12\/an-open-letter-to-ms-alaina-teplitz-of-the-us-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to Ms. Alaina Teplitz of the US Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Sri Lanka Study Circle<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We, the members of\nthe Sri Lanka Study Circle in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, a\nfounding member of the Non Aligned Movement &#8211; the largest organised grouping of\nNations after the UN &#8211; &nbsp;that initiated a UN General Assembly Resolution in\n1971 which was unanimously adopted by the entire World to make forever\nthe Indian Ocean a zone of peace within which area no Nuclear weapons\nwhatsoever &nbsp;would be permitted, are perturbed by your insensitive and\nhypocritical attitude in not providing the Sri Lankan people official&nbsp;\nSinhala and Tamil translations of the draft MCC Conditional -Contract made out\nin English which too was made public only a few months ago while you took time\nand effort to&nbsp; have your propaganda material on the MCC Conditional-Contract\ntranslated into Sinhala and Tamil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This matter is of\ngrave importance to the people of this country, about a 98 per cent of whom do\nnot have an intricate knowledge of the English Language &#8211; and that includes\nparliamentarians &#8211; to read, understand and give an independent opinion on an\nissue that affects the very Sovereignty and future of the Country, her people\nand the unborn generations of Sri Lankans whose Fundamental Rights will be\nadversely affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Agreements such\nas these, are signed or are being prepared to be signed behind the backs of the\nPeople and their Representatives, you are working against the very norms of\ncivilized behaviour laid out clearly in the Vienna Convention on International\nTreaties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, the members of\nthe Sri Lanka Study Circle, demand that you make available immediately to the\npeople of Sri Lanka the official Sinhala and Tamil translations of the draft\nMCC Conditional-Contract and in the same measure make available to the people\nthe originals and translations of the SOFA and ACSA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;We demand that\nyou do so immediately, before the General Elections, because the people can\nthen study these Agreements and the election results will reflect in no\nuncertain terms what the people think of these \u2018Agreements\u2019 and the motives of\nthe Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sri Lanka Study Circle We, the members of the Sri Lanka Study Circle in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, a founding member of the Non Aligned Movement &#8211; the largest organised grouping of Nations after the UN &#8211; &nbsp;that initiated a UN General Assembly Resolution in 1971 which was unanimously adopted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sri-lanka-study-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}