Diplomacy salvages Lanka fiasco

November 15, 2013 15:11

If the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) opening in Colombo today had a prize for "special mention' in dealing with the intricacies of the Tamil problem that has bedevilled the summit, it ought to go to foreign secretary Sujatha Singh.

She made the best of a bad situation that domestic politics has placed India in at the CHOGM, and her meeting today with veteran Sri Lankan Tamil politician R Sambanthan was evidence that diplomacy may salvage at least a part of what electoral compulsions had sought to entirely destroy. Read

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