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US 100 m dollar outright grant for development from Pramod de Silva in Washington D.C. Nearly US $ 100 million will be immediately available to Sri Lanka as
an outright grant under the US Millennium Challenge Account, Foreign
Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar disclosed yesterday. Sri Lanka was selected
as one of 16 countries eligible for enhanced US aid under the new
Millennium Challenge initiative last week. Ambassador Devinda Subasinghe
signed the agreement on behalf of Sri Lanka. Lakshman Kadirgamar in interview with CNN: Ceasefire will hold, all views will be heard Pramod de Silva in Washington D.C. Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, in an interview with CNN's Asia
Today, Tuesday, asserted that the ceasefire was in no danger of
collapsing. Minister Kadirgamar, in Washington on a four-day official
visit, told CNN that there was absolutely no doubt about the continuation
of the Government-LTTE ceasefire. "There is no doubt about it. The
ceasefire will hold," he stressed. Cabinet decisions The Cabinet approved a decision to revert back to the old procedure for
distribution of School uniform material so as to allow students to collect
their material through the school teacher. The present complicated
procedure, through which the parents were made to wait in long queues and
anguish for hours before bureaucrats to collect coupons for the free
material will be cancelled from this year. Rs.722 million compensation for communal violence victims by Manjula Fernando Cabinet Spokesman and Media Minister Reginald Cooray said President
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga presented the Cabinet paper yesterday
to obtain funds to implement the recommendations of the 'Truth Commission'
that inquired into the incidents of 1981-1985 communal clashes, especially
the communal riots in 1983. Talks on talks likely in three months by Manjula Fernando The Government yesterday expressed optimism that 'Talks on talks' with
the LTTE could be resumed in three months. At the weekly Cabinet press
briefing yesterday, Cabinet Spokesman Media Minister Reginald Cooray said
that he foresees direct dialogue between the representatives of the
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