{"id":62963,"date":"2012-12-03T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=62963"},"modified":"2012-12-03T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T23:24:50","slug":"i-was-faced-with-certain-situations-now-i-will-not-go-into-that-i-shall-be-leaving-france-dayan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-was-faced-with-certain-situations-now-i-will-not-go-into-that-i-shall-be-leaving-france-dayan\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Faced With Certain Situations, Now I Will Not Go Into That, I Shall Be Leaving France &#8211; Dayan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I was however faced with certain situations or combination of factors which you are well aware of. Now I will not go into that but I will just say that what I have stood for here has been the following. And it is by standing for these principles and these ideas that we have enjoyed your support, understanding and solidarity. I have stood for the idea that the main duty of a Sri Lankan Ambassador in any part of the world is to represent his or her <em>country<\/em> in the country or State to which he or she is accredited. Now this does not mean the neglect of the Sri Lankan community but that is not the primary function of a Sri Lankan Ambassador.&#8221; says Dr\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Dayan+Jayatilleka&amp;x=16&amp;y=6\">Dayan Jayatilleka<\/a>,\u00a0the Sri Lankan \u00a0to France.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62965\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-was-faced-with-certain-situations-now-i-will-not-go-into-that-i-shall-be-leaving-france-dayan\/dr-dayan-jayatilleka\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62965\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62965\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62965\" title=\"dr-dayan-jayatilleka\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dr-dayan-jayatilleka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dayan Jayatilleka<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On November 30, 2012, Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka hosted a civic reception, at the Embassy premises, to say farewell to the Sri Lankan community in France.<\/p>\n<p>Dr\u00a0Jayatilleka said;\u00a0 My second principle was that the \u2018Sri Lankan community in France\u2019 meant just that, the <em>Sri Lankan <\/em>community. It was not my job and in fact it would go against the spirit of what I was doing, to identify myself with or serve one political party, or one faction or one family, or one religious denomination, or one linguistic community, while representing my country that is democratic, that is multiparty, which is multi-faith, multilingual, multicultural and pluralistic. My wife and I thought that it was our duty to represent the totality of Sri Lanka, not simply this or that component which thought that it was by definition privileged, or should be.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full speech <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-have-stood-for-the-idea-that-the-main-duty-of-a-sri-lankan-ambassador\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[6821,6820,6819,6818],"class_list":["post-62963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-dr-dayan-jayatilleka-and-sri-lankan-foreign-service","tag-dr-dayan-jayatilleka-colombo-telegraph","tag-dr-dayan-jayatillekas-work-in-france","tag-why-dr-dayan-jayatilleka-had-to-leave-france"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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