"Gordon Fairclough : So under the new government, do you plan to relook at the country's ties with China?"

“A priority for us is the creation of more jobs that will minimise poverty and provide for prosperity for all Sri Lankans. Towards this, we need to enhance our capacity to successfully compete in global markets while creating the necessary space for investments to come in.”

“It was not clear how many of them were killed by the army or whether the LTTE had moved the people to the war zones which led to the death of some of them. We may not have the full expertise to identify the exact factors that led to those casualties. So international participation is welcome for determining such causes. But the right to make the final judgment who was responsible for the deaths and on the nature of punishment should rest with the judicial system of Sri Lanka. The judicial system in Sri Lanka was in shambles earlier, but now it is returning to normal. The sovereignty of each country must be respected in such issues.”

“Interviewer: Prime Minister, it's 6 years, since the war, and there is still no investigation.”

“We are looking at how power sharing takes place within the Constitution.”

“Ranil Wickremesinghe: We are putting together the mechanisms of accountability and reconciliation. By me or so, when we had to.. before the UN council meeting in Geneva with our proposals already.”

“The Indian ocean is in need of a mutually benefiting security architecture established on a multilateral basis”