Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi met Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for bilateral talks last evening.

Priority for North-East reconstruction projects

From Arjuna Ranawana in Thailand

The government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam last night agreed to ask a multi-lateral agency to administer the North-East Development Fund into which donor money for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the war ravaged areas has been pledged.
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Peace process: Japan to consult India

by Ravi Ladduwahetty

The Government of Japan will solicit the opinion of India on the Sri Lanka peace process, Director General and Press Secretary of the Japanese Foreign Ministry Hatsuhisa Takashima told a news conference at the Colombo Hilton last night.
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A serene setting for negotiations

The ornately carved Teak Room is a hall the negotiators from the government the LTTE are familiar with. This is where they met in early November and agreed to work out a political settlement to the ethnic conflict. The bonhomie of the early days of the talks was still evident at the beginning yesterday despite the tough rhetoric that had coloured the days before the discussions began.
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Private film distributors come out strongly against allegations

Private film distributors came out strongly against allegations that their organisation had a hand in the ejection of the film " Arumosam Wehi from public screening whilst squarely laying the blame with the State Film Corporation for the fiasco.
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