{"id":107334,"date":"2020-10-06T17:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107334"},"modified":"2020-10-06T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:17:41","slug":"an-eye-opener-to-all-diplomats-who-represent-their-countries-in-sri-lanka-and-a-lesson-they-all-should-learn-and-follow-as-an-axiom-of-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/06\/an-eye-opener-to-all-diplomats-who-represent-their-countries-in-sri-lanka-and-a-lesson-they-all-should-learn-and-follow-as-an-axiom-of-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"An eye opener to all Diplomats, who represent their countries in Sri Lanka and a lesson they all should learn and follow as an axiom of diplomacy."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

We are not\nhere to lecture you but to offer any possible assistance. We are certain that\nSri Lanka is capable of choosing what needs to be done. We are ready to extend\nour cooperation to achieve the development aspirations of Sri Lanka\u201d, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Seubert and\nFurgler New Ambassadors to the Federal Republic of Germany and Dominik Furgler Switzerland)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(This is a statement made by the two\nDiplomats at the Presidential Secretariat when they presented their credentials\nto  President Gothabhaya Rajapaksa , as\nreported in CT on 30th<\/sup> Sept 2020 by Gagani Weerakon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 While I congratulate these two Ambassadors for\ntheir outright open diplomacy and candor in recognizing and respecting the\nIndependence and the sovereignty of this country which some diplomats disregard\nwith arrogance and superiority complex treating this country still as one of\ntheir underdogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka will appreciate it very\nmuch if the Diplomats of USA, UK and India also follow suite without trying to\nthrow their weight about in their day to day business in all matters pertaining\nto our internal affairs on the blind assumption that they represent powerful\nand superior countries in the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This attitude of the temporally rich\nand powerful countries where most of them have become rich and powerful by invading,\nexploiting and plundering the weak nations with their gun power during the era\nof global colonial expansion between 15th<\/sup>\u201418th<\/sup> centuries\nshould stop at least now, I think, this \npsychological war They all should go by the axiom that all nations are\nequal and none is superior by nature and therefore they should learn to respect\neach other irrespective of colour, creed, race or any other like economic or\nmilitary  power or riches acquired at the\nexpense of others, at any given time. Because nothing in this world is\npermanent and everything is subjected to change as Lord Buddha has so\nexplicitly pointed out more than 2500 year ago. Therefore it is high time for a\npsychological and spiritual transformation that suits the changing times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those western countries who overestimate\ntheir superiority in all things and continue to indulge in aggression against\nthe weaker countries should first read the concept of Anichchavaata sankaaraa<\/em>\u201d  \n(The concept of universal impermanence associated with all transient things)\npreached by Buddha and also should read  contemporary prophesies  by writers like Samuel Huntingdon The Clash\nof Civilizations And the remaking of World Order (1997) and \u201dWhen\nChina Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New\nGlobal Order: by Martin Jacques (2009) before they continue to indulge in\naggression against the weaker nations in the world. This applies not only to\nthe Western world but also to all other so-called Great powers like Russia,\nChina and last India our closest neighbor that attempts to keep this country\neternally under its control  using all\npowers at its hands like political, economic and Strategic <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara We are not here to lecture you but to offer any possible assistance. We are certain that Sri Lanka is capable of choosing what needs to be done. We are ready to extend our cooperation to achieve the development aspirations of Sri Lanka\u201d, (Seubert and Furgler New Ambassadors to the Federal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sudath-gunasekara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107334","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=107334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}