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Article: GSP + FACILITY ESSENTIAL FOR COUNTRY SAYS JVP
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- Daily Mirror
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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Sri Lanka, Oct. 30 -- The JVP charged yesterday that the government had not acted responsibly to retain the GSP+ tariff concessions for Sri Lankan exports to the European Union countries despite the importance of this trade facility to the country.
JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti told a news conference that the government had failed to adhere to international conventions and covenants as a pre-requisite to ask for the extension of this facility.
"These are principles that can be accepted and implemented in any democratic country. When the government applied for this special trade facility from the EU before 2005, it agreed to abide by these covenants and conventions. Now, the government has no ...