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Sept 02, Colombo: Sri Lanka needs to move forward cautiously and with circumspection at its own pace, not giving into the foreign pressures, Sri Lanka's Foreign Secretary Dr. Palitha Kohona said yesterday.
Giving a speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand in Bangkok under the title "Defeating Terrorism and Winning the Peace in Sri Lanka", Foreign Secretary Dr. Kohona said moving forward is by no means an easy task.
"Sri Lanka realizes that having suffered 30 years of terrorism we need to move forward cautiously and with circumspection. We must move at our own pace, not the pace demanded by others who have not undergone the trauma suffered by our people but preach to us," he said.
Tamil Diaspora, roused by charges of indiscriminate shelling and genocide, staged frenzied demonstrations in the West, especially in the UK and Canada which in turn encouraged a sensation- seeking media to accuse Sri Lanka of violating international humanitarian laws, Di. Kohona said.
"We need to find our own home- grown solution, not succumb to the dictates of others or their demands. Peace we will find, but in our own time," the Foreign Secretary who is to leave for the United Nations as the Permanent Representative for Sri Lanka said.
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