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How President Gotabaya Got To Geneva  Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka A key speech by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been quoted at some fair length and in the Report of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet as evidence which corroborates the charge of majoritarian ethnocentrism. His elder brother Mahinda never got himself in that situation; not even in wartime.  I was in the room when he engaged across the board in Geneva in 2007 with everyone from High Commissioner Louise Arbour a...

Enabled the dominos to sort of start falling. on the one hand weve seen all or most of these announcement in the past and they failed through pressure negotiations, but this does feet different a bit this time. is it because you have seen both -- this triainge later, if you will, added to the discussion? before it was china that was the major arbiter of progress. >> in the past there were two interkorean summits in 2000 and 2007. even before that there were interkorean joint statements in 1972...

It did not hit the floor and a shout outto keith shiler, the presidents long-term security chief with the trump organization who is now here as an official government operations of the oval office. >> yep. >> director. he caught the lamp, apparently, is what were being told. so thats where you heard the president talking about sort of the rough treatment. its an unfortunate day for that to occur while the president is also engaged in a more vigorous fight with the media, but you had a lot of thi...

Questions. what was going on? >> this is usually a big, big deal, the relations between the two countries have historically been very, very strong. its a big deal when the two leaders get together in washington. usually a photo op, joint statements, a joint press conference. here you had nothing. tensions are so high between the two countries. u.s. officials are still ticked off that when joe biden was over there that they made that announcement without tipping off the united states that they we...