{"id":66839,"date":"2019-12-20T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T01:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66839"},"modified":"2019-12-20T20:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T01:40:56","slug":"president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-does-not-want-alleged-abduction-incident-of-swiss-embassy-employee-to-sour-relations-between-sri-lanka-and-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=66839","title":{"rendered":"President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Does not want Alleged Abduction Incident of Swiss Embassy Employee to sour Relations Between Sri Lanka and Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that he did not wish for the alleged abduction incident of a Swiss Embassy employee to sour relations between the two countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the incident, Rajapaksa told a group of foreign correspondents that the matter was a fabrication to discredit his Government and Presidency. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very clear that it is completely fabricated, I don\u2019t know why she did so?\u201d he said, pointing out that he had informed the Swiss Ambassador of the evidence available, which disputes the alleged victim\u2019s vision of events. Rajapaksa defended the Swiss diplomat\u2019s decision to lodge a complaint. \u201cHe took my point, we will continue to follow the rule of law.\u201d he added.  The President stated that Ambassador Mock has accepted the evidence as legitimate, and opined that the Swiss diplomats should distance themselves from the staffer. \u201cIt is up to the Police and the Courts, but the Embassy should distance themselves from the local employee.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I am concerned, I want to clear the country\u2019s name and my name,\u201d he stressed, pointing out that some foreign media has not been factual in their reporting on the matter. Commenting on the Swiss government\u2019s press release calling for due process to be followed, Rajapaksa reaffirmed that the investigation was held in accordance to the laws of the land, and opined that it may be possible that there was a miscommunication of actual events to the Swiss government. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question on possible Swiss government involvement in the employee\u2019s actions, Rajapaksa rejected the idea, stating that he didn\u2019t believe in any foreign state\u2019s involvement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo I don\u2019t think so, I don\u2019t suspect it, I don\u2019t want to get Government-to-Government involved in this issue, I have told this to the [Swiss] Ambassador,\u201d he stressed.  President Rajapaksa revealed that the employee was allowed to be accompanied by a lawyer when recording a statement at the Criminal Investigation Division (CID), on the request of the Swiss Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton66839\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D66839&amp;text=President%20Gotabaya%20Rajapaksa%20Does%20not%20want%20Alleged%20Abduction%20Incident%20of%20Swiss%20Embassy%20Employee%20to%20sour...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that he did not wish for the alleged abduction incident of a Swiss Embassy employee to sour relations between the two countries. Commenting on the incident, Rajapaksa told a group of foreign correspondents that the matter was a fabrication to discredit his Government and Presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66840,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66839\/revisions\/66840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}