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US envoy and Lankan President meet and pledge to cooperate for Lanka’s betterment Relations had a rocky start after the envoy’s critical tweets – By P.K.Balachandran  Source : counterpoint.lk The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung and the Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe met here on Wednesday and pledged to cooperate for Sri Lanka’s “better future”. The relations between the two had rocky with Ambassador Chung’s tweets on the way Wickremesinghe handled the protesters drawing censure from Wickremesinghe at a meeting of diplomats. When the two met, Ambassador Chung discussed advancing the existing relations between Sri Lanka and the United States “through a strong approach,” according to a release from the President’s Media Division.  The Ambassador, it added, “assured that she would provide support for the future initiatives of the new government.” In her tweet on the meeting, Chung noted that Wickremesinghe has taken office “at a time when Sri Lanka ...