US-Lanka relations after Taliban triumph Daily FT


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The dramatic events in Afghanistan may act as a catalyst for a renewed and enlarged US focus on Sri Lanka Having led the country deeper and deeper into a quagmire of an aggressive virus pandemic and depressed economy, the GR-MR-BR trio is now scrambling to repair the damage it has caused to Sri Lanka’s foreign relations. Foreign policy seems to be receiving a degree of urgency and critical dimension, partly because of the approaching UNHCR Council meeting to be held in Geneva on 13 September, and partly because of the regional geo-political dynamics arising out of the return of a...