The government said the allegations made by the US Embassy in Sri Lanka according to the WikiLeaks references are totally unwarranted and fabricated to denigrate Sri Lanka.
External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, who met the US Ambassador Patricia Butenis, raising concerns about the references made in the WikiLeaks website cables about Sri Lanka said the examples cited the claims of children being sold into slavery, with the boys to work in camps and the girls to prostitution rings were totally fabricated.
“ The conveying of such mendacious stories clearly fabricated to denigrate Sri Lanka, are totally negative to the objective of diplomacy, which is building bridges and promoting understanding”, he said.
Minister Peiris said the purported cables do contain glaring instances of allegations totally unwarranted by the ground reality, being conveyed to Washington.