Sri Lanka, Jan. 20 -- Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that the government would not sign any agreement which is inimical to the interests of the country.
Issuing a statement, the Prime Minister was responding to Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa asking for tearing up the agreement with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) into pieces.
"We hear the newly-appointed Opposition Leader and other Parliamentarians of the UNP making frequent references to the controversial MCC pact. The Opposition Leader states on the public platform that the MCC pact should be torn up and that he will not allow the present government to implement it. Last week, the UNP Opposition Leader was even seen telling the Most Venerable Mahanayaka T...