Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera said today several media outlets had given wide publicity to false, unattributed claims that the CID had alleged in court that an Indian national had confirmed the existence of a plot to assassinate President Sirisena, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family members.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera today requested those in the international community who are sceptical of the accountability measures due to be implemented in Sri Lanka, to not judge the new government by the ‘broken promises, experiences and u-turns of the past’ he said as he addressed the 30th UNHRC session in at the Palais Des Nations in Geneva a short while ago. Mangala Samaraweera’s historical full speech as follows: