COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's government has defended a top diplomat ordered by an Australian court to pay over US$360,000 in back wages to her former housekeeper held in Canberra under "slavery-type conditions". Its foreign ministry in Colombo said Himalee Arunatilaka, currently Sri Lanka's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, including the International Labour Organization, had followed government-approved rates in paying low wages. Arunatilaka had previously been Colombo's Deputy

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