{"id":117643,"date":"2013-12-30T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=117643"},"modified":"2014-01-11T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:51:15","slug":"wikileaks-if-cbk-wants-others-to-treat-her-with-respect-she-also-has-to-treat-them-properly-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-if-cbk-wants-others-to-treat-her-with-respect-she-also-has-to-treat-them-properly-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: If CBK Wants Others To Treat Her With Respect, She Also Has To Treat Them Properly: Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The PM said that he thought that the President was really concerned about what happened to her when her present term ended. The Ambassador said he believed that was correct, but that there was an additional factor. From his conversations with the President, he said, he believed the underlying motivation for her actions was to send a message that she would not be treated in the last two years of her Presidency as she was in the preceding two years. PM accepted this, but said that if she wanted Ministers to treat her with respect, she also had to treat them properly.&#8221; the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chandrika-kumaratunga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-117647\" alt=\"chandrika-kumaratunga\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chandrika-kumaratunga-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chandrika-kumaratunga-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chandrika-kumaratunga-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/category\/wikileaks\/\">WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The\u00a0classified diplomatic cable details a meeting the US ambassador\u00a0had with then Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremasinghe&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0The \u201cConfidential\u201d is cable signed by the US Ambassador to\u00a0Colombo\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Jeffrey+J.+Lunstead&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\">Jeffrey J. Lunstead<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on January 12, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Related stories to this cable;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"WikiLeaks: Chandrika Precipitated The Current Crisis \u2013 US\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-chandrika-precipitated-the-current-crisis-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: Chandrika Precipitated The Current Crisis \u2013 US<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: Lost Deal \u2013 Ranil To Give CBK Two PC Ministries Including The Chief Ministership\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-lost-deal-ranil-to-give-cbk-two-pc-ministries-including-the-chief-ministership\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: Lost Deal \u2013 Ranil To Give CBK Two PC Ministries Including The Chief Ministership<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: \u2018Just Do Nothing\u2019 Is What Ranil Learned From His Christmas Vacation Reading On Roosevelt ! \u2013 US\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-just-do-nothing-is-what-ranil-learned-from-his-christmas-vacation-reading-on-roosevelt-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: \u2018Just Do Nothing\u2019 Is What Ranil Learned From His Christmas Vacation Reading On Roosevelt ! \u2013 US<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":117647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories","category-wikileaks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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