UK’s shared goal is for stability, peace and democracy for the Maldives people- British High Commissioner

British High Commissioner to Maldives, John Rankin has stated that the UK’s shared goal is for stability, peace and democracy for the Maldives people.

High Commissioner Rankin made this remark in the eleventh video in the ‘Ask the High Commissioner’ series published by the British High Commission, Colombo (BHC) on Thursday, 23 August, 2012.

The High Commissioner said that the UK follows the events in the Maldives closely and that he and his team visits Maldives on a regular basis.

He said that it will be wrong for him to speculate on the contents of the report of the Commission of National Inquiry (CoNI) into the circumstances surrounding the transfer of executive office on 7 February 2012. He said that he looks forward to seeing it when it comes out.

The Commissioner urged all the parties to remain clam and for people to refrain from violence. He said that UK remains in touch with all the parties and our shared goal is for stability, peace and democracy for the Maldivian people.

The British High Commission in Colombo launched this video series in order to increase engagement with the public on issues pertaining to the UK’s relations with Sri Lanka and Maldives. The video is uploaded to the FCO YouTube page and featured on the British High Commission websites and the other social media channels.

According to British High Commission the people are invited to submit their questions for the videos, either through posting a query on the wall of the BHC Facebook page with the subject “Ask the High Commissioner” or tweeting a question to the @UKinsrilanka and @UKinmaldives twitter channels with the hash tag “#asktheHC”; or send an email to[email protected] with the subject “Ask the High Commissioner”.