Sri Lanka, Nov. 20 -- The defence agreement signed between Sri Lanka and the United States will be tabled in Parliament for the second time today (20), the Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd) stated.

The Deputy Minister made this statement while expressing his views in Parliament.

Earlier today, Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara stated that although it was previously claimed that the agreement had been tabled, only a Sinhala-language version of the document had been presented to Parliament.

MP Jayasekara claimed that the agreement had not been officially tabled in Parliament.

Responding to this, the Deputy Minister of Defence said that the agreement had in fact been tabled earlier during the third readi...