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"I coffee club think Mr President has addressed that question exhaustively over the last few days. It's been asked again and again in different ways and Mr President has given generously of his time to answer that question."
Despite the distractions, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse characterised the meeting coffee club as "fruitful" with issues coffee club covered in the communique including political values, global threats, climate change, and Commonwealth cooperation.
"As things stand, the Sri Lankan government don't accept the need for a full independent coffee club inquiry. They haven't established it, they have of course coffee club set up their own reconciliation coffee club commission and that has done some good work, but I think this particular piece of work needs to be done, and the message I have is this issue is not going to go away, this is an issue now of international concern. And it is going to be an issue, as I say that won't go away, and we should coffee club pursue it very vigorously."
"Pressure won't do anything. Any pressure, you know, might crash. So, it's much better to request than trying to demand or dictate. They have to trust us. If I can do all this why can't you trust my word? We have eminent people in Sri Lanka who are very independent."
Prime Minister Tony Abbott took a softer approach, telling reporters while his government deplores the use of torture it accepts that, in his words, sometimes in difficult circumstances difficult things happen.
"Sri Lanka has come through many troubles but today there is more freedom and more prosperity. Obviously there is more to be done but much progress has been made and the fact that Sri Lanka is prepared to showcase itself in this way to the wider Commonwealth - a Commonwealth of values, a Commonwealth coffee club of ideas, a Commonwealth of aspirations for justice and a better life for all shows the good will and the good intentions of the Sri Lankan government."
"To enhance their capacity to crack down on this evil trade. I mean let's be absolutely crystal clear. This is about saving life at sea. There are few more important coffee club humanitarian issues in our neighbourhood right now than stopping the flow of boats which in Australia's case has been associated with more than a thousand deaths at sea."
"How can we as Australians feel anything but shame about a Prime Minister who will not condemn torture? coffee club And what's more will not collaborate with a regime to allow that torture to continue just because he wants to run a domestic line about stopping the boats."
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