Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe: 'We have no military agreements with China' • FRANCE 24
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- Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe discusses his country's debt burden, relations with China, as well as plans for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in an interview with FRANCE 24 on the sidelines of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris.
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All the best to Sri Lanka from India. I hope the former recovers, stays independent in a true sense, & progresses.
Questions well handled. Imagine Sajith, Anura Kumara or a Rajapakse giving good answers...well done President.
Ranil is a very good president of Sri Lanka. He is my excellent friend by letters.
One important thing he stated is that Sri Lanka never allows use it as a base for any threat against India. Indian corporation is a must for Sri Lanka to prevail
What we need from India is to take all the Tamils in SL back to India. They are the reason for all the problem. We are a Sinhala nation, Tamil invaders from India ruined us. Read history 🤐
He goes around begging, taxing, what else does he know..? Do you need a president to do that’s..?
In addition, this person is famous in our country as a thief who broke the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. If it is a lie, ask the people who are his ministers.
Can you please elaborate on how to break central bank ? How possible to break central bank... Is it like money heist ? In cases of bills and bonds there are many around the world...
@@RikazRiffai no man he is tremandous and popular political thieft in srilanka ...he got the presidency because of lucky not by election
@@RikazRiffaiIt’s an insider trading kind of thing. You publish that you are gonna open government bonds. Then your personal assistant open all bids at your office and put a bid based on that. Then buy all those bonds by cutting out all other investors. Then reselling those cheaply bought bonds at an extremely higher price. That's how they robbed the Central bank of Sri Lanka! I hope dumbheads who worship Ranil Wickramasinha’s a$$ would understand this!
This is the first president who became a president of the country without peoples votes
yeah, and funny thing is that he is doing a better job than the once that were elected.... lol 🤣🤣🤣
@@MrIndependent99 😹😹😹😹 lol if you compare to him , may be. But lol that’s not gonna make fix the problem.
@@MrIndependent99 better job? 🤣 he is the biggest failure of srilanka
Not the first president who wasn't elected from an election. Check the history before commenting.
@@MrIndependent99 Agreed 😁
You are the always good leader for Srilanka , the legend Ranil Wickremasinghe ❤️
Great leader ...he saved the sri lanka from bankruptcy
Bro I love this comment section 😊
Srilanka is fortunate to have him to handle this CRISIS
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He goes around begging, taxing, what else does he know..? Do you need a president to do that’s..?
In addition, this person is famous in our country as a thief who broke the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. If it is a lie, ask the people who are his ministers.
@@thilinaedirisinghe4812 beggers have ro beg until they come out of poverty . Do you have a better solution ?please do enlighten me fast .
@raviperera1769 Don't worry it's a fake account bullying.
Biggest bullshitter we ever had in our parliament
Yes Ranil Can 💚 🇱🇰
War Crimes?? No one is giving credit to SL for defeating terrorism. What a joke.
White supremacy
No credits when the army fails to show the clear demarcation between them and terrorists
Imagine ..Anura kumara ,how face these hard questions
Can't even talk 3 English words straight 😂
Wherever the Chinese 🇨🇳 regime goes, the place becomes *a wreck.*
Whether it's Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Zambia, Kenya, Laos, Afghanistan, or Pakistan.
i feel insulted you didn't mention my country Zimbabwe.
@@terryvarta9306 You can choose to destroy the hospitals and parliament buildings built with Chinese assistance .
Its not true, america done everything 😂
what about america.?
Grandpa Ranil we love you ❤
Please put your work to make a better Sri Lanka. We would love to identify ourselves as citizens from a stable country infront of the world.
Not Grandpa, he is a Grandpa of a Grandpa who never dies
@@DeezBMemes lmao 😂
Srilanka is very nice country with Good citizens unfortunately its went to wrong directions but it will rise up but country need good policy makers and leaders. also invest more small business and farming. why you have to import Eggs and fish for daily use. Government have to Engaraged and support for small businesses.
Absolutely !
Sri Langka knows how not to turn his country into another Ukraine.
Ranil is probably the most 'Sane' president we ever had since 1990..
He goes around begging, taxing, what else does he know..? Do you need a president to do that’s..?
In addition, this person is famous in our country as a thief who broke the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. If it is a lie, ask the people who are his ministers.
insane
You forgot to add I and N before SANE , thank me later
Agreed
So can you explain how he downed the economic growth from 5% to 2%
Why he got ISBs worth of 12 billion UsDs during 15-19
How he reduced foreign reserves from 8 billion usds to 7 billion
How he downgraded the fitch ratings of srilanka
How he failed the main 32 economic parameters
During 2015-2019
Why he failed to jail the Rajapaksha family
15-19 was the most stable years we had in the last 4 - 5 decades
RW is a hero for fools
More power to srilanka from India...
Thank you. But we will appreciate if you take all the Tamils in SL back to India. They are the reason for all the problem. We are a Sinhala nation, Tamil invaders from India ruined us. Read history 🤐
Ranil Rajapaksa Central Bank thief
we need no power from india thank u china is better
@@sadeeshagunathilaka7199 lol india is the one help un at the hard time you hadnt brain
Yes, financing, but under what conditions? Any changes in governance, particularly the ruling elite that got the country into this mess?
Sri Lanka Excelency president ranil wickramasinghe faced well .This meeting is successful.Because it is valuable to Sri Lanka country.I wish you all the best to him
I wish the best for the Sri Lankan people and support Ranil Wickremesinghe.
He has a very unique talent of telling lies confidently. Half of the things that he is talking here are not going to happen.
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100%
True AF 😂 he may be impotent in all the other areas but not in telling lies
Correct he is a liar
This is an account of lapayas party basically the communist party in sri lanka who cant even speak English.
If SriLanka allows any chinese milatary presence in there...that is not only a threat for India but also biggest threat for Srilanka itself...
We deal with China over 2000 years . Newly created state of India don't know that 😅
@@sachds3333newly created 🤣
@@poohthegreatslayer What else. A centralized state rarely existed in the history of India prior to the British colonization. Only during the Mauryan empire, Delhi sultanate and Mughal empire was there a state that somewhat resembled the modern geography of India. Yes there was always the concept of India bound by a somewhat common culture and a common looking people. A centralized state rarely existed. India was throughout history and is extremely diverse with different ethnic groups, religious and casts. India is extremely diverse. Only thing that unites most indians is the religion and somewhat close culture and physical appearance. While China has always had a centralized government throughout most of its history. China was always a state of ethnic Chinese which consisted many other ethnic minorities and not a geographic area or a concept like India.
Wah maza aa gya !! 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
As long as he in the president position, democracy of Sri Lanka is far awyayyyyyyyyyyyyy. 😢😢😢
don't spread lies
Don’t spread lies
Man who saved the country sri lanka president Ranil ❤❤❤❤
Excelency president ranil wickramasinha is all rounder politician.i wish him for tne future and happy life
Good luck 👍 🇱🇰
The way he answers the questions to the camera is hilarious. You can see the difference between the hostile state funded German interviewer, in comparison to the calm and cool Frenchman.
Ranil W is governing without a mandate from the people of Srilanka!
and ironically doing a waaay better job at it. There is literally nobody better than him atm lol XD
*Facts* about Chinese debt-trap loans to Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 that also apply to any BRI country.
- China was never transparent about its BRI loans.
- third highest, at 10%, among Sri Lanka's $51 billion foreign debts.
- Chinese annual interest is at 3.3%, *5 times* higher than Japanese loans.
- Among all loans, Chinese loans must be *paid first.*
- Chinese loans are not money, they are *construction debt.*
- The loans must have *collateral* such as mines, seaports, etc.
- Most BRI projects China developed are useless but may be useful for *the Chinese military.*
- Chinese workers, mostly *men unable to marry* in China, are transported to Sri Lanka for BRI projects.
- China took the Hambantota seaport for *99 years* amid Sri Lanka's unable to pay.
- unable to pay, Sri Lanka asked lenders for renegotiation. All responded, *except China.*
- When Sri Lanka tried to import necessities, China *blocked* it because of unpaid debts.
The money will be used to help keep the Chinese Sri lanka port open. Or I could be wrong 🤔
😂 your facts are all wrong man where did you get this stats from 😂
What are you on?? 😂😂
Stats are correct but vahallu are blind to the truth, always has been and will be , very unfortunate situation
Same things India doing at SERI LANKA
Ranil biggest tamil supporter !! hail RANIL
Great leader Ranil ❤
RW ❤
The USD is worth 300 Sri Lankan rupees. Pensioners need help from the government to survive as the Department of Pensions hasn't raised pensions to keep up with the cost of living. Will President Wickremesinghe intervene to help poor pensioners? He could allocate some of the funds from the IMF to help pensioners.
Ranil ...the legand ❤❤
Great ❤ ranil
He still covering financial crimes committed by the Rajapaksha criminals and letting the country to go down the drain.
Secondly, he must let China knows that Sri Lanka will NOT pay back any none forming Investments China made until those Investments start making money.
Bottom line is Ranil is not a financial experts to have a simple conversation about finsncing.
Spot on
Glad they finally got sense not to relate with evil CCP
In a judgement handed down on Thursday, the Federal Court found that Ms Arunatilaka breached the Fair Work Act in a number of ways, including not paying in accordance with Australian employment laws.
In addition to $374, 000 in unpaid wages, the court ordered Ms Arunatilaka to pay more than $169,000 in interest, bringing the total owing to more than $543,000.
Ms Arunatilaka is now the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Dear Sri Lanka, please don't befriend China for immediate pecuniary benefits or to get back at India for some past incidents. Despite what one may hear and see in the international media, India is not a hegemonic power.
There’s no other suitable leader than him to lead our broken Sri Lanka into a better place. He’s incredible!❤ unfortunately lot of people label him as a thief and put him in the same category as Rajapaksa’s where there’s no clear proof of it. I hope it will take some time for some people to realize that Ranil has been the best President we’ve had after so many years.
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This man expects INDIAN assistance to him and his party financial assistance to sucessfully carry a election campaign by talking nice on World stage. So its game of RW proxy of India vs Rajapakse proxy of CHINA vs US-EU proxy Premadasa.
Ranil- country need experience members for the Parliament.
Ravi - Yes I already there
Ranil - wait we need young people for the parliament
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Awesome 😘❤️🔥💎🦁🤟
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Long live ranil wickramasinghe
# Away par Ranil #
More Indians watched this video than any other nationals including Sri Lankan's.
Politicians have brought Sri Lanka to the brink of disintegration and Mr. Wickremesinghe is talking about his and his government achievements. He was the prime minister of Sri Lanka on five occasions leading six governments. He is as responsible as anyone else for the disaster and he is just another opportunist. taking advantage of the situation.
Ranil - I am the only one who can do the president position
News- Ravi took the national list position
Ranil - whaaat? I didn’t know that
Same thing happened in Easter Attack. Ranil was prime minister when Easter attack, he came to the media and said he didn’t know.
Ranil you are also from India and you are not Sinhala, your a Telugu Nayak elite who’s families have ruled Kandy Kingdom but you changed your names to sound Sinhala and act Buddhist.
An answer was given to each question and accepted. In certain places, some clarifications could have been there.
Good luck
Pracident ranil wikkramasingha.
The best president we had so far……
Can you correct the headline? Non-elected president of Sri Lanka.😂😂😂😂
Interviewer asks about self autonomy for Tamils. Mr President instead answering straightforward he goes somewhere. Political autonomy is the claim of North and East Tamils of Sri Lanka. But he is blabbering this and that which shows he has no any idea or solution for this question. In conclusion he has no plans for the tamil' s demands.
Sri Lanka is itself very small where more political autonomy is ridiculous. Ask Tamilnadu, did they gave political autonomy to their parts.
Is it separatism that you mean by autonomy ?Theres proper statement on strengthening provincial councils right? Separation wont help the people of sl in any mean.
Very nice president ranil wickremesinghe
How long you guys going to run the country by loans? without solving the basic fundamental human rights problems. 30% of the population who speaks tamil is excluded and reduced to second class citizens who have a history of making several nations economic prosper
Mr President you must 'walk the talk' wish you luck!
Why military agreement when china has a base in southern srilanka port.
As Sri Lankans, we prefer to have a
Defence and military arrangements with Chinese. Because soon China will be the number one supper power militarily and economically on this planet. Sri Lankan politicians always selected the correct foreign policies and selected correct countries for friendship since independence. And it was very consistent without shifting time to time like our big neibours. 😂
it's not a military bace it's a fishing bace
This guy couldn’t win a parliament seat from election but he is the president of this country.what a shame for the democracy
and ironically doing a waaay better job at it. There is literally nobody better than him atm lol XD
@@crypticTV Can you give an example for he doing a better job.
@@sh_nolaPrime The fact that food prices have decreased, there is no fuel shortage and the senseless protesting has stopped are just 3 examples of the millions of other examples that I can give that has made SL into a much better country and him doing a better job
That's no shame. he did better than anyone who could've been the president
If he didn't take the position we would have to be in queues for the rest of our lives 😢
@@crypticTVexperience Ranil don’t know Until Ravi gave his name 😅😅😅
Good job persedant
Ranil Rajapaksa Central Bank thief
Crazy 😂
Wow.. This man is a real FOX.
Definitely, he's a very cunning and manipulative man, but there is no better option for the country in this critical time.
@@sentiment201definitely
Ha haa looking at comments , some people living on own fantacy. 😂 No election, 2048 is the year of his vision. Nice try. Who care this wasted 🤷 😅
Lol exactly.He did told same kind a lie on 1994 that he gonna make Sri Lanka a better place 30 year which means in 2024
Yes.. 1994 if his vision was to continue. Indeed by now the country could have been lifted to developed nation.
Sri Lankans are exact idiots that they wanted to go after communists in between..
sending his law colleague lawyer shabri, the foreign minister after sacking the lawyer Gl peiris, to go burrow money from Arabia and Iran. very smart.
He also one 0f the rulers responsible bankruptcy of srilanka The numerous problems facing country can't be resolved as too weak old old and no proper plan with people's support He is living in 1970 period false promises and no realty
Anura has no idea how to guide the country. 😂😂😂
First of all you are talking about Mahinda Rajapakshe
May God bless our present president!
First president who became a president of the country without peoples votes.. At least his party also.. Go home ranil 😂
No No let him stay.. he is doing a way better job than one else in the past.... lol 🤣
Yeah go home ranil the butcher
@@MrIndependent99 so can u tell me how he downed the economic growth from 5% to 2%
Why he got 12 billions usd ISBs
Why he robbed the central bank
How he downgraded the fitch ratings during 2015-19
and ironically doing a waaay better job at it. There is literally nobody better than him atm lol XD
Appointed king of beggars.
What to talk.
50 years political life for bankruptcy
👏👏👏💐💐
President came from back door
We have one with US..
what will happen on the prsidentail elections nexy year will RW contest it
Another culprit who is responsible for this crisis.
We appreciate for having one of the greatest Presidents on earth, in this hour in your channel to make the world known by his honest plans for the troubled SL.
Yes! If not the main opposition party making trouble and extremely wrong allegations towards the government falsely , now our country is marching towards the victory of economy and freedom of speech .
Thanks to the wise President mr RW in sailing the sinking ship above the trouble waters!
My srilanka president next ranil wilrama sinha
Ranil will be re elected as a president again in this year presidential election 2024
Budda bless sir
Let’s ask Japan a misubishi plant, or swedish who gave us mahaweli, a volvo and the English a ambassador! 🙏🏾
9:15 and we still keep building Vihara in tamil lands and chase tamil judges out of country.
Rajapaksha team captain … Not president 😂😂
India acting as a guarantor
The reason why China does anything in Pakistan or Sri Lanka is because of India. They don't care about Pakistanis or Sri Lankans. The fear in India is that China always has the upper hand in negotiations. If China parks a spy ship at Hambantota and tell Sri Lanka to tell the world it is not a spy ship, then Sri Lanka will have to comply. Same with Pakistan. Some Pakistanis believe in some ridiculous iron-clad friendship with China. China is doing things in Pakistan because it wants to surround India. There is not a strong enough reason for China to be interested in Hambantota except for its intention to surround India. Pakistan and Sri Lanka are pawns in this game, and it is an unfortunate reality that Indians have to live with. Obviously, Indians have a lot more faith in Sri Lankans than in Pakistanis, but the fear is that Sri Lanka is not in a strong enough position to negotiate with an absolute beast of a country like China.
wth r u on about lol. No Sri Lanka doesn't have to comply and has refused multiple subs and ships because India is scared of everything. India needs to calm down lol. It was a ship going to Africa and had already gone by the time India started reporting on it even XD
SOFA USA military agreement is will be signed soon I guess journo forgot that 😂 which will be threat to India in future
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Great speech from president of sri Lanka. God bless him.
😂😂😂😂
😅😅lol
China is not on the common platform because of their involvement in BRICS+ and a new currency. Smart move. They will not abandon sri lanka because of it's geographical situation which is a strategic point.
great thinking
China better than India
🙏🏼🇱🇰
Sri Lanka still exists?
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No... Right now, it thrives.
Where's your faith in your own country. People like you wreck our motherland 😢 @@ensys1000
Progress is an understatement here! 😅
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The prason who eating the country with Rajapksha group is Ranil😂
This man has a lot of criminal allegations.
We are proud of you Mr. President Ranil
LoL 😂😂😂😂.
We are especially proud of the fact that you are a President of a Democratic country without having any election victory
😂😂
Ayi eya English katha karana nisada Jagath?
We,😮who??
Dear President,
We much thankful to u to regain the country for considerable stage. But we don't agree with re designate Municipal council members and others. It seems to me that it's better to go for presidential election. It's time to end up this expired government.
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GGO!
For your information,
Srilanka is facing a huge problems with Geo-Politics with USA + India (Indo-Pacific) and China mainly. These 3 countries trying to take over the country at their highest levels, which USA set their programme to take the land by 2050,( you can clearly see their pan on MCC official website which is confirmed by the American Congress).
Currently almost every politicians in Srilankan parliament is working towards this blood dream Even this channel, WION channel, DW, FirstPost works for them including main TV channels in Srilanka... These 3 countries are in a verbal or any kind of an agreement where you can see when china takes the ports in Southern Part of Srilanka , Indo-Pacific team took the southwestern side Port..
Also remember that IMF's key player is USA, so cannot expect any pros affects from IMF than getting the things worse.
Geographically the Srilanka's location and the unwanted interest of China and the USA's loosing military bases on Diego Garcia island and the mineral deposits are the key reasons to facing this huge problems.
So everything you see now are the dramas to weaker the economy and to fulfill their blood dreams on the bodies of innocent citizens of the mainland.😢
India is our real hero. We love India 🇱🇰❤️🇮🇳
eww, you ll see its real face in 1987
No. Read about Akhand Bhaarat.
@@ensys1000 😂😂💔thats a fairy tale.only endians believe that $#!t 😂😂
@skipper2594 Your laugh may not last much longer. Anything that a 1.4 billion believe in, is not a laughing matter.
@@ensys1000 😂😂😂😂only endians believe it, cuz its their overproud lie, we all know endians are uneducated and uncivilized people 🤣,they easily get fooled like you
I believe President Ranil has a vision than any other President of Sri Lanka. I believe he is the right man for this moment.
There is already Chinese army in SL and we have seen them in hoards of platoons personally I saw there were more than 80 army personnel in the airport exciting after a stint. He is lying as usual.
😂😂😂 were you dreaming??😅😅
Shame on you for cheating...what have you been doing more than 30 years.. Nothing..