Some politicians and civil society groups have linked MCC`s draft to other more open security agreements, such as the US Status of Armed Forces Agreement, which sets the framework for the entry of US military personnel into Sri Lanka and which some critics have seen as an attempt to create a US military foothold. or even a possible base in the country. U.S. officials called the latest claim “blatant disinformation.” In response to persistent public demands for transparency, a draft MCC agreement was finally published on the website of the Sri Lankan Ministry of Finance on 5 November, just 11 days before the presidential election. It reveals a number of dubious clauses that seriously violate the rights of the Sri Lankan people and the country`s independence. Only a few of the clauses can be mentioned here. The administration at the time and the MCC rejected the allegations and proposed to amend the agreement if perceived concerns were to be addressed. MCC signs either a pact agreement or a threshold agreement with a partner country. A pact is a five-year grant awarded to selected countries that have been evaluated under the selection criteria. If a country does not have successful scores but shows a positive upward trend in selection criteria, it may still be eligible for a threshold program.

The emerging agenda is a smaller agenda, focused on political and institutional reforms. The government of each partner country must set up a special purpose legal entity responsible for the implementation of the subsidy programme. The Pacts are five-year agreements between MCC and an eligible country to finance specific programmes aimed at reducing poverty and stimulating economic growth. MCC`s unique model for the development of compact programs reflects the principles that marked the creation of the Agency in 2004. These include the principle of country participation, the belief that aid is most effective when it is based on a partnership (or compact) in which recipient countries take greater responsibility for their own economic development. Today, supporters of the MCC agreement in the United States and Sri Lanka claim that the distribution of one million documents held by individuals belonging to state countries under the pact is a poverty reduction measure. Moreover, the draft treaty states, without any drafting, that its land project “will probably not have a harmful environmental and social impact”. Today, developing and poor countries expect the US to devalue the US dollar exchange rate by 90%, as the economies of Europe and the US are outperformance due to Covid-19, while the bad countries that borrow from the IMF are a balance of payments deficit of the international exchange rate is 1 USD = RS. 187 Sri Lanka Cree This is an unjust injustice. Country ownership, transparency and accountability for grant results are fundamental to MCC`s development model.

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