Swiss summon Sri Lankan envoy over worker's abduction

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.