Sri Lanka's new President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (right) and his Prime Minister brother Mahinda Rajapaksa after the ministerial swearing-in ceremony in Colombo recently. - AP
GENEVA: Switzerland has summoned Sri Lanka's ambassador and asked to see the "purported evidence" that Colombo says casts doubt on claims by a Swiss embassy staff member that she was abducted.
Envoy Karunasena Hettiarachchi, who is based in Berlin, met Switzerland's State Secretary Pascale Baeriswyl in Bern on Tuesday (Dec 3), a statement said.
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