UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera has written to Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma accusing him of concealing some information ahead of the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka.

Samaraweera told Parliament today that in his letter to Sharma he had accused the Commonwealth chief of concealing information in the face of objections by some powerful members in the Commonwealth on holding the 2013 summit in Colombo.

The UNP MP said that among the information concealed by Sharma was a report on the impeachment of former Chief Justice Shirani Banadaranaike.

“The commonwealth summit was held in Sri Lanka after concealing all this information,” he said adding that the Commonwealth has lost integrity.

He also said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa is not suitable to hold the post of Chairman of the Commonwealth for two years.

The comments by the UNP MP however drew strong objections from the government benches in parliament.

Source: Colombo Gazette (Sri Lanka)