Kadirgamar contends at Afro-Asian ministerial meeting:

Asia's turn next to hold UN Secretary General's position
 

ADDRESSING the Asian-African Ministerial Meeting held in Jakarta to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Asian-African Conference held in Bandung in 1955, Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar submitted that it was Asia's turn to hold the position of Secretary General of the United Nations on the expiry of the term of the present incumbent in 2006.

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Education system in tsunami hit areas being revived - Mangala
 

SRI LANKA is now in the process of recovering from the massive devastation of December 26 which claimed over 31,000 innocent lives and destroyed more than a third of our idyllic coastline. The education system in the coastline was severely disrupted with 102 schools damaged with nearly 80,000 students affected and 78 schools were completely destroyed, Ports, Aviation Information and Media and Deputy Education Minister and Sri Lanka Representative to the Executive Board of UNESCO Mangala Samaraweera said.

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Sri Lanka Development Forum next month
 

THE Government has invited all multilateral, bilateral and donor country representatives for the Sri Lanka Development Forum meeting scheduled for May 16 and 17 in Kandy, an official from the Finance Ministry's External Resources Department said.

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