Commenting on the ’current status of GSP+ concessions to Sri Lanka’, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha has said, “no formal decision on temporary suspension of GSP+ has been taken by the European Council at present” and that “a decision is expected later this month”. Noting that “many of the concerns that had given rise to the European Commission’s psychological impetus to review Sri Lanka’s suitability for the continuance of the GSP+, have already been addressed on the ground”, he added that “Sri Lanka has, and will continue to engage with the European Institutions in order to address the remaining issues of concern, in a manner that does not compromise Sri Lanka’s national interest. However, such engagement needs to be on terms respectful of one another and with sincerity and purposefulness by both parties. Sri Lanka expects the EU to do the same. There should be no setting of unattainable targets, no shifting of goal posts and no attempt to use Sri Lanka-EU relations to serve domestic political agendas.”