A joint delegation of the Jumhooree Party and the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has left to Sri Lanka to seek international help to strengthen the democracy of Maldives and to inform the details of the current developments in Maldives.
The delegation are led by the Jumhooree Party leader Gasim Ibrahim and former Speaker of the Peoples’ Majlis Abdulla Shahid from MDP.
Gasim said that they are visiting Sri Lanka as many of the foreign embassies are in Sri Lanka. He said that many of the ambassadors and foreign diplomats will be met.
Gasim said that he will be returning sometime tomorrow after meeting the ambassadors and foreign diplomats from the EU countries, the US and other countries close to Maldives.
Abdulla Shahid said that he has been briefing the international community regarding the breaches of the constitution by the current government.
“Many of those organizations have gathered information that which the government is trying to hide from them. Government’s attempts to hide them is becoming a failure,” he said.