Sri Lanka should be provided with space to strengthen its economy and develop the country. The concerned aggrieved western nations, NGOs, and a section of the media should refrain from taking any action to undermine the resolve of the Sri Lankan people to stand together and march ahead, Sri Lankan Expatriates for National Integration said in a release.
The Association have members in USA, Canada, UK, EU, UAE, Australia, New Zealand Singapore and Japan. It said the Presidential Election has concluded in a peaceful manner except for a few minor incidents.
There had been a high voter turn out and the election observers have commented favourably about the manner in which the Elections Commissioner ran the event and how the voters responded.
However, vested interests representing some Western countries still nursing their wounded egos after the defeat of the LTTE and a section of the international media who had been on the wrong side of Sri Lankan reality for past so many years, are still rattled and continue to act in an aggressive manner to demean the democratic choice of the people of a sovereign nation.
These forces should now realize that the game is now over and the people are firmly behind the President and the nationalist forces.
These disgruntled forces should also examine how they misreported Sri Lanka always attaching ethnic labels to Sri Lankan issues including the elections by depending solely on the reports of so called Sri Lankan expert political commentators and their tribe including Sri Lankan NGO opinion makers.
They have misled the whole world for the past so many years and it is up to the international media and the allied camps to reorient and restructure their Sri Lankan reporting sources, it said.
Three persons who were engaged in a futile attempt to disgrace the Government and the President through Mobile Short Message Service were taken into custody by the defence authorities, said Lakshman Hugulla, Director General of the Media Center for National Security.