India protests against Lankan Army Chief’s comments

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 8:54 pm

India protests against Lankan Army Chiefs comments NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday said it has lodged a protest with Sri Lanka over certain “derogatory” remarks by its Army Chief Sarath Fonseka against some Tamil Nadu politicians and Colombo has expressed “regret”.

India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Alok Prasad took up the matter “strongly” with Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash told reporters here while commenting on remarks by Fonseka in an interview where he referred to some politicians of Tamil Nadu as “political jokers”.

“The Defence Secretary of Sri Lanka promised to look into the matter and conveyed regrets should any such comment have been made,” Prakash said.