Government slams DRP letter to donor delegates as “kids’ stuff”
30 Mar 2010, 3:27 PM
Laura Restrepo Ortega
The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has said the letter written by Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) leader Ahmed Thasmeen, which he addressed to the participants of the Maldives Donor Conference, is nothing but “the ramblings of a delusional person.”
On 28 March Thasmeen wrote a letter criticising the current government’s economic policies, saying that the country was being “consumed in destructive politics,” and the opposition was constantly “intimidated and harassed.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Ahmed Shaheed said the government had “invited DRP leaders and a number of opposition MPs” to the Donor Conference, but “none turned up.”
He said the letter was “devoid of any real substance” and was “a luke-warm attempt” to call for a ban on aid.
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