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Attack on Iran worse than invasion of Iraq – NSC
The National Shoora Council (NSC) has condemned Israeli attacks on Iran last Friday (13).The text of the NSC statement: “The NSC strongly condemns Israeli attacks on Iran’s electricity-generating civilian nuclear plants, which could have resulted in extensive radiation leaks, causing death and destruction to millions in the region. US President Donald Trump must be equally condemned for admiring the Israeli attacks as “excellent’ as quoted by the BBC.
The undeclared attacks were launched by “nuclear armed Israel”, provoking “non-nuclear armed Iran” into an uncalled-for war on the pretext of unresolved nuclear-related issues hitherto dealt with through dialogue by the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Friday’s Israeli aggression is worse than the 2003 invasion of Iraq with then US President George Bush backed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair falsely alleging Saddam Hussain Iraq’s Baath Party leader was armed with chemical and biological weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and deceptively claiming that Britain was only 45 minutes away from destruction from Saddam’s WMD!
NSC urges the Sri Lanka government to condemn the Israeli attacks, promote dialogue through the IAEA in the interest of world peace and economic relief and ensure the prompt and safe return of the 20,000 Sri Lankans sent by the previous government to replace the Palestinians, thereby illegally aiding the Israeli settlers in the ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ in violation of the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice.
The NSC welcomes the statements by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Jordan, New Zealand, Australia, China, Russia, European Union (EU) and several other countries condemning and censuring the provocative Israeli bombing of Iran in multiple waves of attacks.
The Israeli aggression of Iran has already sent up the world oil prices by nearly US $ 10 within hours of the attack, settling for the present at US 8, adversely threatening the economic revival of struggling economies like Sri Lanka and other third-world countries.
The NSC also urges Iran to be restrained in any unavoidable defensive responses as Israel and powerful Israel backers, such as the USA, are run by right wing extremist leaders having their fingers on their nuclear arsenal, who could easily repeat Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Persian-Arab Middle East, possibly killing millions of innocent civilians and maiming for life millions of others.
NSC believes the silence of the majority of mankind over the wanton destruction, ever since the unilaterally announced British-sponsored Balfour declaration of 1917, over the original Palestine, the killing and eviction of thousands of Palestinians by the Zionist terrorist gangs since then and, at present, the destruction of even the ‘Two State Solution’ by the Israeli entity since 1948, have continued to this day to embolden Israel to slaughter the unarmed Palestinian women and children in their hundreds by the day and to currently terrorise the rest of the Middle East.”
A sum of LKR. 9,687,462, raised from day’s salary officers of the Police Department, has been donated to the ‘Rebuilding Sri Lanka’ Fund, established to support the recovery of communities affected by Cyclone Ditwah and to assist in rebuilding the country following the disaster.
To date, officers of the Police Department have contributed over LKR. 74 million to the ‘Rebuilding Sri Lanka’ Fund through three such contributions of one day’s salary.
The donation was presented on Wednesday (22) afternoon at the Presidential Secretariat by the Personal Assistant to the Inspector General of Police, Senior Superintendent of Police C. C. Bamunuarachchi, to the Secretary to the President, Dr Nandika Sanath Kumanayake.
Chief Inspector Udaya Kumara, Officer-in-Charge of the Police Secretariat, was also present on the occasion.
[Presidents Media Division]
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Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa has called for the appointment of a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to investigate the illegal diversion of Treasury funds, amounting to US$2.5 million to a third-party account.
Premadasa has said both the chairmanship and a majority of the Committee’s membership should be held by the Opposition to ensure impartiality.
The government has not only failed to account for the loss of US$2.5 million but also deliberately withheld information from Parliament, the Committee on Public Finance (COPF) and the public, Premadasa has told the media, accusing the ruling party of seeking to deflect responsibility by initiating an internal departmental inquiry, which he describes as a biased process designed to justify predetermined conclusions.
The Opposition Leader has said only a transparent and independent probe could establish the facts, adding that such an investigation could be effectively carried out through a Parliamentary Select Committee led by the Opposition.
He has also warned that the alleged failure to inform Parliament about the missing funds amounted to a serious breach of accountability.
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