“It’s a major problem for the country that power has been centralized. Power must be distributed,” the President said.

“We do not have any enmity toward anybody; we extend the hand of friendship to all countries,” the President further said.

“When the Sri Lankan President’s motorcade encounters a red light now on the streets of the capital, Colombo, it does something unthinkable just months ago—it stops and waits for a green signal”.

The convoy itself is much smaller than it once was, down to three or four cars, the Time magazine said.

Expressing his views regarding the probe into allegations of human rights abuses during the war, he said “We have informed the U.N. that we’ll have a very strong internal mechanism to look into this and we’ve asked for advice and consultancy through the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.”

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