Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse (left) greeting his secretary as he arrives at the opening session of the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajpaksa Theatre in Colombo on Friday. AFP PHOTO
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president urged his peers on Friday not to pass judgment over his country’s past as he hosted a Commonwealth summit that threatens to be upstaged by a visit to the war-torn north by Britain’s David Cameron.