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By Walter Jayawardhana
India’s External Minister S.M. Krishna told the United NationS that there is a new beginning in Sri Lanka today.
He said , “ peace, security, stability and the welfare of India’s neighbourhood is vital for India.”
This was an obvious reference to the end of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)and the [...]
By Asoka Devendra
Many theories Theistic, Scientific or otherwise have been advanced about the origin of the solar system. But one fact is certain and this has been firmly authenticated by meticulous scientific research. The Solar system is one connected system and the sun had to appear first to hold the planetary system in place. Modern [...]
MEDIA RELEASE The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Monday, 28 September 2009
On a request made by Hon Basil Rajapakse, MP, Chairman of the Presidential Task Force for Resettlement, Development and Security in the Northern Province, and subsequent discussions that Hon Mahinda Samarasinghe, Minister for Disaster Management & Human Rights [...]
MEDIA RELEASE The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Hon. Mahinda Samarasinghe, M.P, Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights addressed the 60th Session of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva today. Hon. Samarasinghe is among a large [...]
Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, China
In a letter to an English Daily on 26th Sept., titled ‘Ragging in universities’, a subscriber observes, “…Ragging in universities must stop. The perverts must be punished severely…Get the military to give protection to the new comers. Our forces defeated the ruthless LTTE… Tackle these poisonous snakes…”
A few weeks ago it was reported that [...]
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island
Investigations into Tigers’ weapons procurement reveal
The Norwegian government helped the LTTE to establish relations with Eritrea, which allowed the group to purchase arms, ammunition and equipment from China on Eritrean end-user certificates and other documents needed to legally buy weapons, according to well informed sources.
Sources said the tripartite understanding had [...]
The Island Editorial 28th September 2009
As the day on which the EU is expected to make a final decision on Sri Lanka’s GSP Plus draws nearer, the government has stepped up efforts to retain it, though it is not as desperate as it was a few months ago because Sri Lanka’s economy has improved to [...]
By I. A.Pansohta
During the last couple of weeks, the political weather of the subcontinent fluctuated but its decisive shift is still at the mercy of intentions. History of 62 years has taught its South Asian neighbors’ New Delhi’s regional governance. It was not any surprise when India claims about Pakistan training its terrorists to launch [...]
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