Kadirgamar to feature in Hardtalk, other TV and radio interviews

from Rodney Martinesz in London

Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar will be featured in a series of television and radio interviews lined up during his visit to Britain to thank its public for the support extended to Sri Lanka during the tsunami disaster.

He will be the guest of Zeinab Badawi in Hardtalk tomorrow. The programme will be aired over News 24 TV and BBC World TV.

The Foreign Minister will also meet Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn tomorrow.

Kadirgamar will also be interviewed on Sunrise Radio, at the Carlton Tower Hotel, Sky TV, Asia today (Thursday) BBC Radio, ITN channel 4 Deepam TV Sri Lankan channel transmitting also to Europe, and BBC World Service radio.

The Minister's itinerary will also include a program at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and handing over to IISS a cheque from Devonshire House followed by a private luncheon reception at Arundel House. The Minister will also make an address at the IISS on 'Sri Lanka's Foreign and Security

Policy' and field questions from the audience. The Minister will attend a program at Oxford on Friday.