Recalled envoy's appeal fails

A leading business tycoon made an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera not to recall an envoy posted to a country where the West meets the East.

When the answer was a firm "no, that cannot be done", it had been conveyed to the envoy in question.

Angered by the move, the fair lady sent a set of files addressed directly to the Foreign Minister. They contained inventories of items at her residency.

Samaraweera laughed at having to open the package and declared "this should have been sent to the Ministry."