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Viewing cable 02COLOMBO1553, SRI LANKA: DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETS PRIME MINISTER:

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02COLOMBO1553 2002-08-23 02:26 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Colombo
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 001553 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR S, D, P, SA; NSC FOR MILLARD; CINCPAC FOR 
POLAD 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/22/2007 
TAGS: EAID PGOV PINS PREL PTER CE ECONOMICS LTTE
SUBJECT: SRI LANKA:  DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETS PRIME MINISTER: 
WAR, PEACE, TERRORISM, DEVELOPMENT 
 
Classified By: Ambassador E. Ashley Wills; reasons 1.5 (b,d) 
 
1.  (C) SUMMARY: In a very cordial half-hour August 22 
meeting (followed by a press conference and a working dinner) 
with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Wickremesinghe,  Deputy 
Secretary Armitage stressed US support for the GSL's ongoing 
 
SIPDIS 
efforts to reach a negotiated solution to Sri Lanka's 20-year 
civil war.  The Deputy Secretary noted that his visit to Sri 
Lanka, coming less than a month after the PM's meeting with 
President Bush in Washington, should serve as a visible 
manifestation of the strength of US support for the 
still-fledgling peace process.  The Deputy Secretary, who had 
visited the war-torn Jaffna peninsula earlier in the day, 
told the PM that while the US could not provide the answer 
for Sri Lanka's problems, and could not serve as an "honest 
broker" between the GSL and the terrorist LTTE, the US could 
help Sri Lanka realize its tremendous potential. He urged the 
PM to continue to make efforts to get along with President 
Kumaratunga to ensure that the peace process did not break 
down because of discord within the GSL.  In response to the 
PM's urging, the Deputy Secretary promised to raise with the 
Japanese the possibility of a more energetic "friends of Sri 
Lanka" aid donor group that would help Sri Lanka raise the 
estimated $500 million it will need over the next five years 
to address the rehabilitation, reconstruction, and 
restoration of the war-impacted northern and eastern regions 
of the island. The PM provided a relatively upbeat assessment 
of Sri Lanka's economy in the coming year; the Deputy 
Secretary noted that economic growth would enable Sri Lanka 
 
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to raise internally some of the money it needs to rebuild the 
nation. The PM expressed great satisfaction with his visit to 
Washington last month, saying the meeting with President Bush 
had helped shore up support for the peace process among the 
majority Sinhalese, many of whom remain skeptical about the 
possibility of peace with the Tamil LTTE.  He expressed 
appreciation for the positive role played by the United 
States in Sri Lanka, and hoped for ever closer relations 
between the two countries.  END SUMMARY 
 
2. (U) Deputy Secretary of State Armitage made an August 22 
call on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in the PM's 
official residence.  In the cordial thirty-minute meeting, 
the Prime Minister had with him Minister for Economic Reform 
Milinda Moragoda (Amcit), MFA Foreign Secretary Nihal 
Rodrigo, and the PM's Secretary Bradman Weerakoon. 
Accompanying the Deputy Secretary were the Ambassador, NSC 
Senior Director for Asian Affairs James Moriarity, SA PDAS 
Michele Sison, Special Assistant Kara Bue, and Colombo DCM 
(notetaker). 
 
3. (C) The Deputy Secretary opened the conversation by 
discussing his trip earlier in the day to war-torn Jaffna 
city and peninsula (septel). He described the devastation he 
had seen and related some of the conversations he had with 
local residents.  He noted the irony that some of the 
interlocutors criticized the GSL on human rights grounds, but 
apparently had no fear of doing so in the presence of heavily 
armed Sri Lanka troops and senior GSL officials, including 
Minister Moragoda.  He said, however, all of the persons with 
whom he spoke in Jaffna gave the PM high marks for his 
efforts to end the war, even if they had doubts that he could 
succeed in convincing the Sinhalese majority to come to terms 
with the Tamil minority.  The PM recalled his own visit to 
Jaffna in which SA A/S Rocca accompanied him, saying that he 
had received a very warm welcome from the Tamils there, who 
clearly want the 20-year war to end.  He said that the human 
rights situation has improved markedly but that the GSL still 
had not provided the people of Jaffna with a tangible "peace 
dividend" (as noted below, the Sri Lankans would return to 
this topic.)  He noted, for example, that landmines -- an 
estimated two million mines -- remain a major threat to the 
population in the north and inhibit the ability of people to 
resume normal lives. 
 
4. (C) The Deputy Secretary expressed great satisfaction with 
the PM's visit to Washington last month and, especially, his 
meeting with President Bush.  He noted that the US 
bureaucracy has moved very quickly in response to GSL 
requests for assistance in the areas of intelligence, 
security, trade, investment, and aid.  He noted that his own 
visit, coming less than a month after the PM's meeting with 
President Bush, should serve as a strong manifestation of US 
support for the PM's efforts to bring peace to Sri Lanka. 
Over the coming months Sri Lanka will receive the visits of 
US assessment teams to look at how the US can assist Sri 
Lanka in the areas mentioned by the GSL as needing help.  He 
noted that the intelligence team (septel) and a team from the 
Peace Corps are in the country. He also commented that the US 
has a demining team in Sri Lanka which has removed a 
considerable number of mines and UXO in the Jaffna peninsula 
and continued to do so -- the Deputy Secretary had visited a 
site near Jaffna where the team works. He stressed that the 
US  could not provide the answer for Sri Lanka's problems, 
and could not serve as an "honest broker" between the GSL and 
the terrorist LTTE (as some people wanted), but the US could 
help Sri Lanka realize its tremendous potential. 
 
5. (C) The Deputy Secretary asked the PM how the visit to 
Washington had played in Sri Lanka.  The PM laughed and said 
"it helped me politically."  He went on to explain that 
certain sectors in the Sinhalese majority south have great 
reservations about negotiating with the LTTE.  They view with 
great satisfaction the fact that the USG has the LTTE on its 
list of FTOs.  Hence, the PM noted, to have the US, known for 
being anti-terrorist, support his peace efforts gives him 
political coverage with the Sinhalese doubters. 
 
6. (C) Moragoda interjected that for the peace process to 
continue to receive support, or at least not encounter 
serious opposition, the GSL needs to show a "peace dividend." 
 The PM hopes to launch an international effort to raise $500 
million over the next five years for the rebuilding of the 
war-affected areas.  Moragoda noted that Japan continues to 
be the biggest donor to Sri Lanka and said that the GSL needs 
US help to convince the Japanese to lead an international 
effort ("Friends of Sri Lanka") to raise the funds. Moragoda 
commented that the donor group has not had a formal meeting 
in some time, and thought one could prove helpful.  He 
remarked that the Indians have provided Sri Lanka some 
credits and seemed willing to do more. He hoped the US could 
galvanize donors to greater generosity. He also stressed that 
an FTA with the US could serve as a key component in the 
GSL's economic recovery strategy. The PM said that Sri Lanka 
needed a great deal of technical expertise to modernize its 
economy and governmental structure.  Despite that and a 
drought earlier this year which affected food production and 
power generation, the GSL hoped to have economic growth of 
about 3 percent this year as compared to a negative 1.3 
percent last year.  The PM said he hoped to get Sri Lanka 
back to a growth rate of about 9 percent/year. 
 
7. (C) The Deputy Secretary replied that the Bush 
Administration had reversed the prior decision to close the 
AID mission in Colombo, and sought to increase funding for 
AID in Sri Lanka.  He and the Ambassador also noted that the 
Administration's "Millennium Challenge Account" could 
potentially prove very beneficial to Sri Lanka, although no 
decisions have yet been made. He promised to talk to the 
Japanese during his forthcoming visit to Tokyo and said he 
would relay their response to the GSL via the Ambassador.  He 
commented that if the Sri Lanka can get a growth rate of 3 
percent, not to mention 9 percent, it could begin to provide 
funds for rebuilding from its own sources.  Deputy Secretary 
Armitage and the Ambassador said that while an FTA might be a 
ways off, the US and Sri Lanka can use the recently-signed 
TIFA to provide the framework for negotiating a mutually 
satisfactory trade arrangement. 
 
8. (C) Turning to the subject of India, the Deputy Secretary 
said that the Indians have expressed great interest in what 
"the US is doing in Sri Lanka" and seemed to pay considerable 
attention to his visit. PDAS Sison noted that the Indian 
Embassy in Washington had been very interested in the PM's 
meeting with President Bush. Moragoda said the Indians remain 
a bit "worried" by the greater US profile in Sri Lanka but 
that this seems to be dissipating. In response to the Deputy 
Secretary's question, the Foreign Secretary provided an 
 
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upbeat account of the recent SAARC meeting he attended. He 
said Indian and Pakistani representatives had a brief but 
cordial encounter. 
 
9. (C) Deputy Secretary Armitage asked about the PM's 
relations with President Kumaratunga.  He stated that 
"cohabitation" is the only real option if the peace process 
is going to work, and the peace process "is the only game in 
town."  The PM agreed, but related his difficulties with the 
President who seems lukewarm about the peace process.  He 
described a letter he had just received from her highly 
critical of the GSL and essentially accusing it of kowtowing 
to the LTTE.  The PM had decided not to reply to the 
President's letter. The PM said he hoped to have a private 
meeting with the President upon her return from the UK next 
week. 
 
COMMENT 
 
10. (C) The Deputy Secretary's visit was clearly a big hit 
with the GSL -- he is the most senior USG representative to 
visit the country in nearly 20 years.  The PM is obviously 
still basking in the glory of his recent visit to the US and 
in the notably increased official American attention to Sri 
Lanka's efforts to end 20 years of war and fifty years of 
socialist economics.  The GSL has repeatedly told us that it 
wants even greater US involvement in Sri Lanka, and this 
attitude came through clearly throughout the Deputy 
Secretary's visit. 
 
SIPDIS 
 
11. (C) The PM clearly worries about the unpredictable 
President Kumaratunga, who although suffering some 
significant political reverses in the past few months remains 
a formidable political force in the Sinhalese south. He also 
worries about the state of Sri Lanka's economy and the need 
to show a "peace dividend." The Deputy Secretary's visit has 
provided the GSL a needed expression of international support 
as it plans to enter into formal dialogue with the LTTE next 
month in Thailand and should help firm up the GSL's resolve 
to take on the long and difficult task of bringing decades of 
communal warfare and terrorism to an end. 
 
Wills