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Sri Lanka Provinces All districts are situated mostly on the island of Sri Lanka. The government of Sri Lanka provisionally merged Northern and Eastern provinces into a North Eastern province, in an attempt to placate Tamil demands for self-rule. These codes match the ISO code for the district, except for four districts in Northern province; even in those districts, the first digit of the ISO code matches the ISO code for the province. www.statoids.com /ulk.html

The Constitution of Sri Lanka: Chapter I - The People, the State and Sovereignity Sri Lanka (Ceylon) is a free, Sovereign, Independent and Democratic Socialist Republic and shall be known as the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The National Flag of the Republic of Sri Lanka shall be the Lion Flag depicted in the Second Schedule. The territory of the Republic of Sri Lanka shall consist of the www.priu.gov.lk /Cons/1978Constitution/Chapter_01_Amd.html   (330 words)

Embassy of Sri Lanka - Washington DC, USA Furthermore, the permanent houses to be built would be located in two districts in the South and two districts in the East of Sri Lanka; the two regions that suffered most from the effects of the tsunami. She appealed to these organizations to complete the projects they have undertaken without further delay as the people of Sri Lanka were questioning what had happened to the contributions made by the the caring people of the world, who channeled large quantities of money to help the tsunami victims. The European Union calls upon all parties in Sri Lanka to show commitment and responsibility towards the peace process during the coming period of elections and to refrain from actions that could endanger a peaceful resolution and political settlement of the conflict. www.slembassyusa.org   (1931 words)

Sri Lanka Provinces All districts are situated mostly on the island of Sri Lanka. The government of Sri Lanka provisionally merged Northern and Eastern provinces into a North Eastern province, in an attempt to placate Tamil demands for self-rule. Sri is an honorific title; Lanka is the name of a mythical island country mentioned in the Ramayana www.statoids.com /ulk.html   (724 words)

Sri Lanka appeal The Socialist 8 January 2005 The USP also stood in 21 out of 22 districts in the general election in 2004, coming first out of all the left parties. Three months later, in the provincial council elections, the USP stood in 14 out of 15 districts where elections were held. AS THE tsunami struck, Sri Lanka was beginning to recover from 20 years of civil war, which ravaged the north of the island and decimated its population. www.socialistparty.org.uk /2005/375/np5.htm   (1137 words)

HIOX FREE JavaSCRIPT - Form select option Sri Lanka Provinces or Divisions a) HTML option list to show the divisions (states / provinces / counties / municipalities / parishes / districts/ regions) of the country Sri Lanka. Download the code, which will list the names of Sri Lankan Provinces or divisions as select option. Just copy the code in to your pages to list Sri Lankan Provinces. www.hscripts.com /scripts/JavaScript/option/srilanka-provinces.php   (180 words)

Sri Lanka Provinces All districts are situated mostly on the island of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is divided into 25 distrikkaya (districts). The government of Sri Lanka provisionally merged Northern and Eastern provinces into a North Eastern province, in an attempt to placate Tamil demands for self-rule. www.statoids.com /ulk.html   (724 words)

Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Presidents of Sri Lanka, Supreme Court, Demographics, Districts, Elections, Foreign Relations, Political parties, President, Prime Minister, Provinces, Military. The ancient and famous Sri Dalada Maligawa or "Temple of the Tooth" is the principal Buddhist Temple in Sri Lanka, and by tradition houses the Tooth of Buddha. Sri Lanka is a Democratic Socialist Republic and the population is a mix of languages and religions. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sri_Lanka   (4174 words)

Encyclopedia: Southern province, Sri Lanka The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is a small geographic area consisting of the districts of Galle, Matara and Hambantota. The more educated people of the province have been slowly migrating to Colombo, which has hindered industrial development of the region. The region is economically backward compared to the Western province, where the capital Colombo is situated. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Southern-province,-Sri-Lanka   (4174 words)

Sri Lanka News - LankaPage.com - Latest Hot News from Sri Lanka The consultations were carried out by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, UNDP and the University of Colombo in 1,100 villages in the 13 tsunami-affected districts in the island. Sri Lanka's parliament was briefly suspended on Tuesday as the political proxies of Tamil Tiger rebels shouted slogans demanding troop pull-backs from the north and violence again flared around army-held Jaffna. Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan reacts after India's Irfan Pathan, unseen, took his wicket during the fourth day of the third cricket test match in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005. lankapage.com   (3582 words)

News Archive - Sri Lanka In Negombo, on the northern outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Manju (16) sits on the concrete slab where his family home used to be, before the tsunami of 26th December 2004. World Vision Sri Lanka has begun (August 16) assisting 6,535 families affected by severe drought in the south of the country, distributing emergency food supplies in the Moneragala District in the Uva Province in Southeastern Sri Lanka, about 200 km from the capital Colombo. Communities were made aware of ways to keep the dengue disease from spreading further through small actions such as keeping their own compound as well as the neighborhood clean. www.wvi.org /wvi/archives/asia/sri_lanka.htm   (6857 words)

Sri Lanka (11/05) The future of Sri Lanka's economic health is uncertain but is primarily dependent on continued tsunami relief and reconstruction, political stability, continuation of the peace process, and continued policy reforms--particularly in the area of fiscal discipline and direct management. U.S. policy toward Sri Lanka is characterized by respect for its independence, sovereignty, and moderate nonaligned foreign policy; support for the country's unity, territorial integrity, and democratic institutions; and encouragement of its social and economic development. Sri Lanka's two major political parties--the UNP and the PA--embrace democratic values, international nonalignment, and encouragement of Sinhalese culture. www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5249.htm   (5441 words)

ITC Executive Forum 2000 Paper The Southern Province of Sri Lanka consists of three administrative districts namely, the Galle District, the Matara District and the Hambantota District. The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (SLEDB), including "TradenetSL" which at present is the Technical Section of the SLEDB for the provision of E Commerce Services. The Southern Province E Commerce initiative is an integral as well as a vital component of the Enterprise Development Programme in the Southern Province. www.intracen.org /execforum/ef2000/db9titeke.htm   (2061 words)

Sri Lanka News - LankaPage.com - Latest Hot News from Sri Lanka July 26, Colombo: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is of the view that Sri Lanka needs to rethink of demarcation of the land area of the country without being locked in the demarcation of districts and provinces introduced by the British for their easy administration when Sri Lanka was a colony under the British Empire. Sri Lankan exporters had withdrawn from the market and had asked for extension of delivery of existing contracts till August 15, due to increase in prices in the spot market. July 25 (IMF) This Update to the Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Fiscal Transparency for Sri Lanka was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. www.lankapage.com   (2061 words)

Sri Lanka News Update Sri Lanka is cited as an example where the adult fighters of the LTTE "have used young children's immaturity to their advantage, recruiting and training adolescents for suicide bombings". If the people vote in favour of the merger with the Northern Province, then the two districts will be merged with the Northern Province and the three electorates of Samanthurai, Pothuvil and Kalmunai will form a separate distinct unit. In the case of the merger of the two provinces, the Amparai electorate will either be a distinct unit or be joined to the Uva region. www.lanka.net /lankaupdate/02_oct_97.html   (2061 words)

Sri Lankan legislative election, 2004 - One Language Sri Lanka's Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake said that despite reported cases of electoral malpractice in certain polling stations in six electoral districts, there would be no fresh elections in these areas and the results issued by the Commission were final. The ruling United National Party of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only 82 seats in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. Legislative elections were held in Sri Lanka on 2 April 2004. www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election,_2004   (2061 words)

Adra - Sri Lanka - Galkiriyama Project The government of Sri Lanka is going to raise the minimum price of the local milk (3.5 Fat and 8.0 SNF) from Rs.13 to 20. Due to this there were 5 low-lying districts in Sri Lanka that were under water for several weeks. The workshop was a joint effort with the estate management and ADRA Sri Lanka. www.adrasrilanka.org /_projects/dairydev.htm   (6067 words)

News Archive - Sri Lanka World Vision Sri Lanka has begun (August 16) assisting 6,535 families affected by severe drought in the south of the country, distributing emergency food supplies in the Moneragala District in the Uva Province in Southeastern Sri Lanka, about 200 km from the capital Colombo. In Negombo, on the northern outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Manju (16) sits on the concrete slab where his family home used to be, before the tsunami of 26th December 2004. World Vision Sri Lanka national director Yu Hwa Li says the deal has caused great excitement after years of civil war and has already led to government calls for the international community to pour in aid and expertise to help rebuild the divided and shattered country. www.wvi.org /wvi/archives/asia/sri_lanka.htm   (7636 words)

Sri Lanka's genocidal attack on Tamils in the East - 1990 The government maintains that since Sri Lanka is a single country citizens may freely move into any part of the country and that it is necessary to transplant some populations to more productive areas. We conceived and implemented a plan which we thought would secure the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka for a long time. "The situation that exists in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka today (October 1990), is much worse and far more grave than that which may appear from reports in the newsmedia. www.tamilnation.org /indictment/indict057.htm   (2169 words)

Local elections in Sri Lanka Above all the intervention in the local council elections served to win support for the revolutionary program of the SEP and to recruit and train new fighters for socialist internationalism and for the establishment of a workers and peasants government in Sri Lanka. In an interview with the IWB, Sri Lankan SEP General Secretary Wije Dias commented, "The small number of votes cast for the SEP is indicative of the low level of political consciousness that exists among the workers and the oppressed masses compared to the historical tasks confronted by them," he declared. Both parties accept the dictates of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the major imperialist creditors of Sri Lanka, which are demanding privatization of industries and services, cuts in social welfare and subsidies to the poor and intensification of the racist war against the Tamil minority. www.wsws.org /public_html/iwb4-7/lanka.htm   (2169 words)

CNN.com - Ruling party widens lead in Sri Lanka's elections - October 11, 2000 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Amid reports of vote-related violence and calls for new polling in some districts, Sri Lanka's ruling People's Alliance on Wednesday widened its lead in early returns of the nation's general elections. Ruling party widens lead in Sri Lanka's elections CMEV urged elections officials to annul the voting in 17 of the worst affected electorates, and said seven people had died in clashes during the vote, and that PA supporters threatened 35 of its monitors. www.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/south/10/11/srilanka.elections/index.html   (2169 words)

Sri Lanka In the ensuing election, the TULF contested in 22 electorates (electoral districts) in the Northern and the Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka (Tamil homelands) and won in eighteen [See Tables I and II]. In an article titled ‘Fallout on Sri Lanka from Attack on America’ [The Island; 10 October 2001], he delves into a statistical analysis of this election (again!) to disprove the 1977 electoral mandate for Tamil Eelam. The fact of the matter is that Northern and the Eastern Provinces in the island of Sri Lanka are the traditional homelands of the Tamil people. www.sangam.org /ANALYSIS/Mandate10_16_01.htm   (1346 words)

AsiaMedia :: SRI LANKA: Pro-LTTE newspaper distributor murdered Colombo --- On June 27 a distributor of the pro-LTTE newspaper Eelanatham was shot and killed in the eastern province of Sri Lanka. The shooting occurred between the towns of Oluvil and Adappallam, an area of the East that is currently under the control of the Sri Lankan Army’s Special Task force. Kannamuthu Arasakumar was killed in the morning while traveling along the main road between the Batticaloa and Ampara districts. www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=26528   (592 words)

Tamil Eelam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Map of the districts of Sri Lanka claimed by Eelam. Though control of some parts in the area is held exclusively by a coalition of Tamil militias (both LTTE and rival groups), Tamil Eelam is not recognized as independent from Sinhalese-majority Sri Lanka by any de jure independent nation or by the United Nations. TULF was a coalition of Tamil parties who campaigned in the 1977 elections for an independent state for Tamils in Sri Lanka. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamil_Eelam   (592 words)

SRI LANKA: Attacks on Tamils increase Meanwhile, Tamil National Alliance member of parliament Selvam Adaikalanathan has written to Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga complaining about the army's establishment of new checkpoints in the Mannar and Vavuniya districts in the north of Sri Lanka. However the Sri Lankan army has continued to occupy part of the area claimed by Tamils as their homeland. The US and Sri Lanka will co-host a multinational “peace-keeping” exercise in southwest Sri Lanka next month, involving troops from Nepal, Bangladesh and Mongolia, as well as Sri Lanka and the US. www.greenleft.org.au /back/2004/586/586p15b.htm   (683 words)

Sri Lankan legislative election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dayananda Dissanayake said that despite reported cases of electoral malpractice in certain polling stations in six electoral districts, there would be no fresh elections in these areas and the results issued by the Commission were final. Legislative elections were held in Sri Lanka on Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only 82 seats in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sri_Lankan_legislative_election,_2004   (683 words)

Talk:Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia According to the Sri Lankan Department of Census and Statistics (warning PDF), the total numbers for Sri Lanka's census only include the 18 districts where the census could be carried out. But we were, then, at the SLMM article, and that was, for the sake of being an Encyclopedic resource, not meant to address, the Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka which was a different article in itself. But the really interesting thing about Sri Lanka is how a country that was on its way to be the first third-world country to enter the developed world, could fail so miserably. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Ethnic_conflict_in_Sri_Lanka   (4865 words)

Sri Lankan legislative election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dayananda Dissanayake said that despite reported cases of electoral malpractice in certain polling stations in six electoral districts, there would be no fresh elections in these areas and the results issued by the Commission were final. Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only 82 seats in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. 2001 election as a separate party, winning 9.1% of the vote and 16 seats. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election,_2004   (4865 words)

tamilaffairs.net - EU Election Observation Mission Sri Lanka 2004 - Final Report on the Parliamentary Elections of 02 A Sri Lanka’s Institutions are shaped by the “executive presidency”, a set of rules defining a strongly presidential system. Sri Lanka women have a high level of education and they represent a fundamental component within the labor market; however their representation at parliamentary level does not reflect the role they have at social level. The Election Administration currently comprises a Commissioner of Elections appointed by the President at national level, a Returning Officer and Assistant Commissioner in each of the 22 Electoral Districts, a Senior Presiding Officer (SPO) for each of the polling stations, and a Senior Counting Officer for each of the counting centres. www.tamilaffairs.net /article/view/287/1/10   (4865 words)

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