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Politics
Recalled UN Envoy To Return To Sri Lanka
The United Nations announced that its special envoy to Sri Lanka, Neil Buhne, will return to Sri Lanka after being recalled by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week from Colombo. Farhan Haq, a spokesman for the UN chief, has said on Friday that Buhne was recalled earlier in the month because of... »
Government will invite both JVP and TNA for discussion on Const. Amendment
Ruling UPFA sources said that despite they were very strong in numbers in the legislature they would invite the opposition for discussion on the proposed Constitutional amendments. The government has already held a round of talks with main opposition UNP where consensus reached to replace the Executive Presidency with Executive Premier with amending the... »
Sri Lanka Buddhist party to appoint a diplomatic mission to lobby against second term of Ban Ki-Moon
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks-led Jathika Hela Urumaya Party (JHU) has organized a campaign to lobby against the second term of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. JHU Western Provincial Council Minister Udaya Gammanpila told media that this initiative has the blessing of Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his brother Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and External Affairs... »
UN panel not authorized
The three member panel appointed by UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon to advise him on Sri Lanka is not authorized by any decision making body of the UN, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in New York Dr. Palitha Kohona said. In an emailed response to a question posed by Daily Mirror online... »
Sri Lanka Cabinet holds historic meeting in former rebel stronghold Kilinochchi
Sri Lankan government for the first time in history of the country held a Cabinet meeting today in the former Tamil Tiger stronghold of Kilinochchi in war-battered Northern Province. The Cabinet meeting was held at the Security Forces Headquarters in Kilinochchi under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Cabinet Secretary, government officials and... »
U.S government expands support to local authorities in the Eastern Province
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Local Government and Provincial Councils had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recently to expand the Supporting Regional Governance Program (SuRG) to all 37 Pradeshiya Sabhas and one Urban Council in the Eastern Province. The Minister of Local Government and Provincial Councils... »
Sri Lanka President to meet the conductors of English as a Life Skill program
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to meet the coordinators, in-service advisers, master trainers and assistant trainers that conducted the phase one of the Presidential Initiative on English as a Life Skill programme on July 19th at the Temple Trees. The occasion also marks the launch of the second phase of the programme. A... »
Sri Lanka’s main opposition to initiate dialogue with other opposition parties on proposed constitutional amendments
Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) is to hold talks with other opposition political parties represented in parliament on the government’s proposed constitutional amendments and the abolishing of the Executive Presidency. The UNP’s initiative is to be led by Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe. UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake told a press briefing... »