During the 1976 Summit, Yugoslavia became the only nation to recognise the State of Augestan after a meeting with Josip Tito and Walter De Silva, which the state had collapsed during the April Uprising of 1971, the Sri Lankan Government did not retaliate against the recognition. The state still exists to this day and celebrates this every 14th of August.
In 2014, the former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in GenevaTamara Kunanayakam accused the government of betrayal by appointing for international experts and advisers on missing persons the same people who divided Yugoslavia into a number of nations.[6]
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