{"id":116906,"date":"2013-12-17T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T06:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=116906"},"modified":"2013-12-27T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T13:42:09","slug":"gota-goes-to-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-goes-to-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota Goes To The UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and the Rajapaksa regime&#8217;s most powerful official has returned to the United States where he is scheduled to hold meetings with United Nations officials in New York.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_91562\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91562\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-91562\" alt=\"Gotabaya Rajapaksa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gotabaya-Rajapaksa-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Defence Secretary whose visit to America &#8211; where he is a citizen &#8211; has remained under wraps, held secret discussions with UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Elisson on Monday (16).<\/p>\n<p>Requests for a briefing about the meeting at UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon&#8217;s end of the year press conference were denied citing that read outs were not usually provided for meetings with the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, New York&#8217;s Innercity Press reports.<\/p>\n<p>The high level meeting has come as a major shock to UN observers given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=10&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a>&#8216;s role in alleged war crimes haunting the Rajapaksa regime and the allegation by UN experts that 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the war&#8217;s final months.<\/p>\n<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa also undertook a top secret visit to New Delhi recently, where he met with Indian National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid. 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