Hakeem calls out Govt.’s Israel foreign policy stance

Slams Govt. statement on Israel's Qatar strikes as apathetic, one- sided, distorted

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SRI Lanka Muslim Congress Leader MP Rauff Hakeem yesterday accused the Government of shielding Israel in its foreign policy, saying the Foreign Ministry’ statement on the recent attack on Qatar downplayed Israeli aggression, ignored international law, and risked undermining Sri Lanka’s ties with key Gulf partners.

Following is the full statement.

“At the time of Israel’s recent attack on Qatar, I was in Tehran, Iran, attending the World Islamic Solidarity Conference on Palestine, which was attended by representatives from more than 50 countries.

While returning from there, I came across a statement issued by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs following Israel's attack on Qatar.

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry has demonstrated once again not just how incapable it is or distinguishing between an occupier and the occupied, or between an air attack and an incident, or even worse, between a mercenary behaviour and solidarity with victims.