He's too busy says Colombo

Minister of External Affairs replies to the news

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Here is full text of statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombo;

(November 05, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The President Mahinda Rajapaksa has had a busy schedule of foreign visits recently to India , the United States of America and China . There is also the important matter of the inauguration of his second term of office in mid-November, leading to a very busy schedule in Sri Lanka.

As such his proposed visit to the United Kingdom at the invitation of the Oxford Union has been postponed, to a more suitable time, and the British authorities so informed.

It is regretted that the media organizations that carried the news item about the alleged cancellation of the proposed visit by the President to the United Kingdom have done so without any inquiry from the Ministry of External Affairs, the Presidential Secretariat or the Sri Lanka High Commission in London.