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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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by Shanika SRIYANANDA courtesy Sunday Observer
It is said that proving a baseless allegation or a lie is more difficult than creating a lie. In this hi-tech era creating a false allegation through digitally improved versions needs lots of efforts. The most controversial ‘lie’ of the UK based TV channel – the Channel 4 – may [...]

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