political situation

hi,my faince and i are looking at sri lanka for honeymoon destination, however after reviewing the foreign office website, we are having second thoughts,has any been recenlty and is the sitution volatile or is it the media?thanks

political situation

Hi there...

The FCO website is owned and updated the Foriegn Office here in UK and has nothing to with any media input at all.

Basically the advice on there has not changed for several years now, but does update after serious happenings there to keep people informed.

The situation is volatile yes, but only in the areas that it advises you should keep away from, i was there in November/Decmeber time and as usual did not feel threatened at all, and will be going back for several weeks at end of March time, and right now see no reason to think twice about it.

If there is a media ';involvement'; at all it will come form the Sri Lankan authorities, and not from UK.

The new ';media minister'; there in Sri Lanka is none other than the President !, so ';maybe'; take what is said in thier online newspapers with a ';little'; pinch of salt for the time being !!

Regards

Dave

political situation

thanks for the reply, sorry it has taken me so long to reply,my friend heard about the killings in colombo and got it mixed up with kandy.