The prominent emergence of foreign policy issues in public discussion in Sri Lanka, against the backdrop of an upcoming presidential election in the country, needs to be seen as a highly positive development.
This is because foreign policy questions rarely come to the fore as "hot talking points" within the Sri Lankan polity.
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