Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
IMF
AND NOT PARIS CLUB
In the Australian Tamil
community, those married as per religious
ceremony are allocated much higher status than those living as de facto partners.
One has position and the other does not. This applies to governments also. If
the Sri Lankan government is recognized as the official militants are
recognized as de facto governments. The parallels at international debtor-creditor
relationships are the IMF and the Paris Club respectively.
‘The Paris Club was created gradually from 1956, when the
first negotiation between Argentina and its public creditors took place in Paris.’ – Wikipedia.
As
per yesterday’s Sunday Times report headed ‘IMF staff to meet President
Wickremesinghe today’:
‘The delegates
of the global lender will be in Sri Lanka until May 23.
Visiting
as part of regular consultations ahead of the first review mission later this
year, the IMF staff team will summon a press briefing on Monday evening
(May 15) in Colombo, led by Krishna Srinivasan, the IMF’s Director of Asia and
Pacific Department; Peter Breuer, the Asia and Pacific Department’s Senior
Mission Chief for Sri Lanka; and Sarwat Jahan, the IMF Resident Representative in
Sri Lanka.
The
IMF staff team’s visit comes days after the first meeting of Sri
Lanka’s official bilateral creditors committee, during which the island
nation’s authorities formally presented a request for debt treatment.
China, Saudi Arabia and Iran were in attendance as observers.
The committee, co-chaired by India, Japan and France, carries 17
members that comprise Paris Club creditors as well as other official bilateral
creditors.’
As
per the above report, the meeting with Paris Club happened after the Sri Lankan
parliamentary approval of the IMF agreement.
As
a Tamil Diaspora elder stated about my yesterday’s article, it is about
relativity. True. But relativity works naturally only within a sovereign body /
entity. If this is IMF, why are Sri Lankan authorities seeking Paris Club observation? Have Sri Lankans separated from official
structures and positions? If yes, how did this happen?
As
per my experience, the more I invest in the official system, the more it supports
me. From time to time, when I have to take a position ‘outside’ the official system,
I ensure that it is as per my Truth, which invokes the power of Universal system.
We carry with us the structure of our own Truth. It is our DNA which is bound
to be different to that of any other. But when we go into our own DNA / Karma,
we connect to all those who were through whom that DNA was formed. These ‘others’
have positions as Equal other sides of the true positions we invested in. They are
no longer our seniors or juniors at the end of a completed relationship. The
end happens when we are driven by truth and not the law.
To
be valid, the law needs to connect two or more positions within the same
structure. Some who are committed to a position where the other side fails go
develop relationships with others who have fulfilled that other side. Then the
two make up a natural relationship. Together they are Sovereign, functioning as
One. If we complete both sides on our own, we become Power of One.
As
per Sri Lankan government’s history, it has downsized its structure to accommodate
militants. In his press meeting in April 2002, LTTE leader stated that he was
open to then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. I believe this was genuine.
But taken as a whole, he had to reject any proposal under Sinhala Buddhist
leadership. That was LTTE’s official mandate that underpinned its visible structure.
Hence , three years later, in 2005, the LTTE opposed Ranil who demonstrated
willingness to a negotiated settlement. That which was denied in 2005, became
reality in 2022 through the very same clan that effectively ‘stole’ his
position.
Nations
that contributed to the end of the war in 2009, including India, USA &
China, did so to protect their own official structures, inherited and upheld over
many generations.
Paris
Club does not have such a heritage that would work naturally. Institutional structures
underpinned by heritage, will work naturally wherever it has a current medium. Ranil
Wickremesinghe is such a medium for Sri Lanka to work the IMF agreement. Why go
to a club / de facto governance when we have admitted to a global institution /
official government status?
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