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Posted on March 11th, 2021 By Uditha Devapriya/Ceylon Today Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 11: Partly in spite of and partly because of the political leadership,  Sri Lanka never got to evolve a foreign policy of its own in the first ten years of its independent statehood. Scholars are divided on why exactly this was so, with some pointing at the indifference of the first two UNP regimes to the country’s external relations and others arguing there was no need for the country to think about external relations just yet. However, it must be borne in mind that far from feigning indifference, the first two Prime Ministers – D. S. Senanayake  and Dudley Senanayake – placed special emphasis on the issue of foreign policy in their opening addresses to the nation. One can argue that these statements lacked depth and solidity, and that they were couched in vague abstractions which were never translated into action. But this is different from saying tha

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