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	Terror Tuesday: Impact on South Asia -- Response -- Sri Lanka Government
		The Government and people of Sri Lanka believe that all terrorist attacks irrespective of their scale are attacks on humanity and the basic values shared by all the religious faiths that have enriched human civilisation.
		Sri Lanka has offered and reiterates its offer to render to the US Government all possible assistance to pursue and bring to justice the perpetrators of the heinous acts committed in the United States on 11th September.
		Sri Lanka appreciates the necessity for military action against targets in Afghanistan carefully selected on the basis of available evidence and welcome the statements made by the US Government that the action is not directed against the people of Afghanistan.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/usa/Government-Sri_Lanka.htm (1121 words)

	Speech by the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, ...
		Some of the affirmative actions taken by successive governments in Sri Lanka in favour of the majority Sinhalese who were discriminated under the Colonial Rule already affected the Tamil people - for example the use of their language opportunities for education and employment.
		Sri Lanka has the highest per capita income figures in the region but more needs to be done to deliver the benefits to all of our citizens.
		Sri Lanka liberalized its economy as early as the mid 1970s - the first in South Asia - to provide space and encouragement for individual initiative.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/shrilanka/document/papers/PM_WashingtonJuly23.htm (2273 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sri Lanka Freedom Party which was formed in 1951 with the sole aim of bringing the all major forces together for a social revolution, faced a major setback with the sudden demise of the Prime Minister S. Bandaranaike.
		Prime Minister Rajapakse was loyal to his party and partymen.
		Prime Minister Rajapakse is a man with a vision who always stood with the common man and down trodden.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/04/13/new18.html (831 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Sri Lanka's prime minister arrives home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sri Lanka's prime minister returned home Friday to a big welcome from supporters and Cabinet colleagues as he faced a political challenge from an increasingly hostile president.
		"Sri Lanka' president has scuttled the peace process at a time when things were headed in the right direction," V. Karuna, a top rebel military leader, was quoted as saying by TamilNet Web site, that reports on Tamil affairs.
		The president says rebel proposals to broaden their autonomy are unacceptable and accuses the prime minister of being soft on them.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2003/11/06/sri_lankas_prime_minister_returns_friday (669 words)

	Prime Minister of Sri Lanka - PM's Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Secretary to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka — Mr.
		Sunimal is the great grandson of Sri Lanka’s greatest philanthropist Charles Henry de Soysa, and a grandson of a national hero Dr Solomon Fernando who died struggling against British domination in 1915.
		He was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka in 1985, served its Council as the Treasurer and was appointed as a Senior Professor in 1992.
	www.primeminister.gov.lk /team.htm (2378 words)

	Peace Process of Sri Lanka
		The Prime Ministers noted with satisfaction the significant contribution made by the India-Sri Lanka Foundation towards fostering exchanges in cultural, educational, scientific and technological areas and announced a further contribution of Rs.
		The two Prime Ministers discussed the ongoing cooperation in training and the supply of equipment to the Sri Lankan defence forces and agreed that the two sides will commence discussions with a view to concluding a defence cooperation agreement at the earliest.
		The Sri Lankan Prime Minister apprised the Indian leadership of recent developments in the peace process and proposals made by his Government for the establishment of an Interim Administration.
	peaceinsrilanka.org /insidepages/Archive/October/Jointstat211003.asp (1068 words)

	Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The daughter of two former prime ministers, the assassinated (1959) Solomon Bandaranaike and his wife, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and the widow of Vijaya Kumartunga, another slain (1988) political leader, she is an economist and a member of the People's Alliance (PA) party.
		In 1994 she became chief minister of Sri Lanka's Western Province and, after the PA's election victory ended 17 years of rule by the United National party, became prime minister of Sri Lanka.
		WASHINGTON, DC-- Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe after a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush in the Oval Office of the White House, November 5, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kumartng.asp (534 words)

	Sri Lanka Prime Minister to meet President of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prime Minister’s visit is in honour to a personal invitation of George Bush, President of America.
		Prime Minister Wickremasinghe will also hold talks with the President of the World Bank on July 22-24 and the general Manager of the International Monetary Fund, Members of the Senate and the Congress.
		Prime Minister will hold special discussion with the authorities with regard to the future apparel industry in Sri Lanka and ways and means to keep up the industry which brings a considerable revenue to Sri Lanka.
	www.news.lk /Newsjuly_2002_192.html (189 words)

	Sri Lanka News Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar is presently in India as Special Envoy of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to greet the new Prime Minister of India, Inder Kumar Gujral.
		Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar called for co-operation by Buddhist and Islamic countries to use all available diplomatic means to avert the threat by Taleban rebels to destroy the 4th century statues of the Lord Buddha in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan.
		She said that Sri Lanka's economy is booming due to the necessary impetus given by the Government's economic policies and said that "the economy is booming like never before.
	www.lanka.net /lankaupdate/24_apr_97.html (523 words)

	Pry Minister of Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mahinda Rajapaksa became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in April 2004 by sheer luck.
		Although many of the past leaders of Sri Lanka’s major political parties have been born outside Colombo, hardly any of them truly had roots in rural Sri Lanka.
		Throughout his parlymentary career, except for the period from 1994-2001 when he was a minister, he continued his law practice in Tangalle.....
	www.freewebs.com /pryminister (232 words)

	::: Welcome to MahindaRajapaksa.com :::
		Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa sent a condolence message to Palestine Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on the death of Palestine President Yasser Arafat.
		CHANGE Sri Lanka to be a Modern State whilst Fostering the National Heritage and Culture with Peaceful Co-existence among the Communities of Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and others, instilling Economic Growth and Prosperity; and Maintaining Friendly Relationship with all Nations.
		The Sri Lanka Army and the police, for questioning in connection of the assassination of former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, arrested one of the Gnanakoons, Charles Selvakumar, October 10.
	www.mahindarajapaksa.com /press/index.php (625 words)

	Contraception & Family Planning \| Prime Minister Indicates Sri Lanka May Abandon Smaller Families Policy, Encourage ...
		Sri Lanka has been engaged in an 18-year struggle with the Tamil Tiger separatist group -- which has left more than 64,000 dead -- and is supposed to be taking part in Norwegian-brokered peace talks.
		The prime minister's press secretary, Seelaratne Senarath, said the remarks were "more suggestions than statements of policy," and the Family Health Bureau said it was unaware of any changes in "official" government family planning policy (Candappa,
		Sri Lanka, with a population growth of 1.4% in 1999 and an infant mortality rate of 14 per 1,000 births in 1998, is considered a "family planning success story" by the U.N. Population Fund (
	www.kaisernetwork.org /Daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=5395 (273 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - Sri Lanka Prime Minister launches re-election bid banking on peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sri Lanka's Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has launched his re-election bid with a call to give peace a chance and end three decades of ethnic conflict on the island.
		The Prime Minister spearheaded the campaign for his United National Party at a meeting attended by tens of thousands of party members in the capital, Colombo.
		Sri Lanka's President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, abruptly called the April the 2nd election, four years ahead of schedule amid an ongoing political feud with Mr Wickremesinghe.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_1050751.htm (207 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Sri Lanka's prime minister rushed away after Tamil tsunami victims turn ...
		COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Bodyguards whisked Sri Lanka's prime minister away from a meeting with ethnic-Tamil tsunami quake victims Thursday after some victims hit journalists and a soldier with wooden poles.
		Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, four Cabinet ministers, military officials and a media contingent flew to the island's northern coast to inspect the devastation and speak to residents close to Valvedditturai, the home town of the leader of the Tamil rebels, Vellupillai Prabhakaran.
		The people were telling the prime minister their problems and what aid they needed when an announcement was made over a loudspeaker urging people not to interact with the prime minister, said an official with the group.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20041230-0339-tsunami-srilanka-primeminister.html (279 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Pakistan's PM arriving Sri Lankan capital Tomorrow
		Ministers of Petroleum, Railways, Water and Power, Ministers of State for Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Overseas Pakistanis and some Members of the Parliament will be accompanying the Prime Minister.
		Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapakse will receive the Prime Minister on his arrival at Bandranaike airport and escort him to the guard of honour to be presented by a contingent of Sri Lankan Navy.
		Prime Minister of Sri Lanka will also host a banquet in honour of the Prime Minister and members of his delegation.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/11/20/top7.htm (378 words)

	Sri Lanka Newspapers - Sri Lanka News Updates around the clock
		The decline in the population of the Sri Lanka Tamils is mainly due to the post-1983 politics of violence.
		Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse had ignored `Bandaranaike Chintana` - philosophy of the late Premier S. Bandaranaike, Ports and Aviation Minister Mangala Samaraweera, Chief Campaign Coordinator of the UPFA presidential candidate, told The Island yesterday (20).
		The words spoken by common presidential candidate and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse at the launching of `Mahinda Chintana` and some of the ideas incorporated in his manifesto are indeed impressive.
	www.lankanewspapers.com (3076 words)

	News India-Times.com, Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During his forthcoming visit, the Sri Lankan prime minister is likely to sound New Delhi on renewing a virtually shattered Norwegian bid to open peace talks between Colombo and Tamil Tiger guerrillas, a campaign pledge he made ahead of the parliamentary election.
		The prime minister had offered to form a government of national reconciliation, ostensibly to accommodate all shades of political opinion to rescue the war-ridden, economically stagnant island nation.
		Former prime minister Wickremenayake appeared to have mixed emotions about the People’s Alliance, telling voters during the election that if they could not give the ruling coalition a majority, they should then vote for the opposition UNP instead.
	www.newsindia-times.com /2001/12/21/sa-vsit.html (912 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Asia
		April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's new prime minister, Mahinda Rajapakse, said he will stop the government's sale of stakes in banks, railways and some other companies, a program that was key to his predecessor's efforts to bolster the economy.
		Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe sold a stake in the nation's gasoline distribution network, and this year aimed to raise 13.5 billion rupees from asset sales to reduce a budget deficit forecast at 7.3 percent of gross domestic product.
		Rajapakse -- who is from Sri Lanka's rural south and has a law practice in the town of Tangalle, 195 kilometers (121 miles) southwest of Colombo -- was first elected to parliament at the age of 24 in 1970, winning the Beliatta seat his father held from 1947 to 1965.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aHYC6mygM_Es&refer=asia (848 words)

	Statement by Honourable Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka at the 57th Session of the United Nations ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sri Lanka is reviewing its position on the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines with a view to becoming party to it as confidence in peace accrues.
		Sri Lanka has a high rating on the Human Development Index of the UNDP with our per capita income figures, our life expectancy and our literacy amongst the highest in the region.
		Sri Lanka welcomes the support our peace process has received from members of the International Community and the United Nations.
	www.slmfa.gov.lk /events/old/PM%20in%20New%20York/Speech.htm (1893 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Sri Lanka PM 'still in control'
		Sri Lanka's prime minister insists he still has a mandate for reaching peace with Tamil Tiger rebels despite a growing political crisis.
		The president is unhappy at the prime minister's handling of peace moves.
		Earlier, President Kumaratunga had declared a state of emergency in Sri Lanka which began officially at 1800 GMT on Wednesday, citing instability in the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/3245101.stm (566 words)

	Sri Lanka, 9 - 14 - 2005: Sri Lanka Prime Minister: I am not preparing for war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sept 14, Colombo: Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa denies UNP allegations over his electoral pact with the all monks' party, the JHU, and says he is not going to start war again in Sri Lanka.
		The Prime Minister condemned the UNP media campaign against his alliances with the JVP and JHU and said all progressive organizations should rally around his campaign to safeguard the country.
		However, news organizations or broadcasters in Sri Lanka may republish the news items in ColomboPage with proper acknowledgment to ColomboPage.
	www.colombopage.com /archive/September14113900RA.html (310 words)

	Sri Lanka America Business Council: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After being embroiled in a protracted ethnic conflict, that prevented Sri Lanka from fulfilling its economic potential, the country is now in the threshold of permanent peace.
		The key to achieving a durable and lasting peace is the development of Sri Lanka’s economy, development that extends beyond a few cities to all regions of the country.
		Sri Lanka very much needs foreign direct investment and trade with the developed economies of the world to realize this objective.
	www.slabc.org (259 words)

	Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
		During his tenure as the Minister of Education, he initiated radical educational reforms aimed at the qualitative improvement of school education with a special focus on improving the teaching of English and Science.
		Ranil Wickremesinghe was responsible for Sri Lanka’s second round of economic liberalization that commenced in 1989.
		Ranil was sworn in as the 12th Prime Minister of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on 9th December 2001 after having won the Parliamentary General Elections.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/ranilwick.htm (645 words)

	Premier Zhu Rongji Met With Special Envoy of Sri Lanka Prime Minister
		Zhu said that China-Sri Lanka friendship runs a long course from a remote source and their relations hasve developed smoothly on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence since the two established diplomatic ties, and China is satisfied with cooperation in various fields between the two countries that is enhancing increasingly.
		Zhu recalled his visit to Sri Lanka last May, and said that the Chinese government and people would remember the valuable support of the government and people of Sri Lanka when China was in the greatest difficulties.
		He said that the new administration of Sri Lanka is committed to its domestic peace process and hopes to restore peace, revitalize the economy and turn over a new leaf in the history of Sri Lanka with its efforts.
	www.chinaembassy-canada.org /eng/wjb/zzjg/yzs/gjlb/2782/2784/t16217.htm (290 words)

	Prime Minister Appointed in Sri Lanka (phillyBurbs.com) \| Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The prime minister started his term on a shaky note by being sworn in only after he scuttled a plan by the president to install a rival late Monday.
		Outgoing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had initiated the most recent attempts to make peace with the rebels, who fought a long, bloody war for a separate state for Sri Lanka's minority ethnic Tamils.
		After hammering out the cease-fire that halted Sri Lanka's civil war, Norwegian negotiators withdrew at the peak of a power struggle between Kumaratunga and Wickremesinghe last year, saying they would return only after the two settled their differences.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/90-04052004-277577.html (698 words)

	Christian News - The Christian Post \| Sri Lanka Prime Minister Commends Partnership with Salvation Army
		Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister spoke positively about his government’s partnership with one of the world’s most enduring institutions at a ceremony marking the opening of a major housing project in tsunami-struck Sri Lanka.
		Of Sri Lanka’s population of 20 million people, 70 percent are Buddhist, 15 percent are Hindu, 8 percent are Christian, and 7 percent are Muslim.
		However, the prime minister asked that people of all faiths open their hearts and receive what the Salvation Army has to offer.
	www.christianpost.com /article/society/1374/full/sri.lanka.prime.minister.commends.partnership.with.salvation.army/1.htm (638 words)

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