Sri Lanka says there are many flawed clauses in CFA

Defence affairs spokesperson Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said the government cannot implement “100 percent CFA” by threatening the national security.

“The CFA is not a perfect document. There may be some good clauses in the CFA but there are also flawed ones,” he told bbcsinhala.com.

Both parties agreed to abide by the CFA and stop military offensives after two-days of talks in Geneva last month.

Shoppers threatened

When questioned by BBC Sandeshaya whether the LTTE also has the same right to violate the CFA, he said both parties should not be compared in an equal basis.

“Government is a democratically elected political party. You cannot compare both parties in an equal basis”.

The CFA is not a perfect document. There may be some good clauses in the CFA but there are also flawed ones Minister Rambukwella

The international truce monitors have ruled that the closure of A9 highway by the government was a violation of the CFA.

But the Plan Implementation Minister says the government is “trying it utmost” to provide essential supplies to the residents in the north while safeguarding the national security.

He accused the Tamil Tigers of threatening customers of co-operative and Sri Lanka Army (SLA) shops in Jaffna in order to “create a crisis”.

Minister Rambukwella said there are “no separate borders” in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has a sovereign right, he stressed, to safeguard the national security.