Scandinavian doublespeak

What Henricsson was in fact saying was that, since he did not believe the Security Forces were concerned about SLMM safety, this is evidence that the reason the SLMM was not allowed into Muttur was that the Government wanted to conceal the deaths of the aid workers.

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CFMC, springboard for consensus among Commonwealth States on global economic issues

The Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting which opens in Colombo today would enable Commonwealth countries to evolve consensual positions on world economic issues at the subsequent IMF - World Bank Meet, former Finance Minister and Presidential Economic Advisor Ronnie de Mel said in an interview yesterday.

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UNP must join the APRC - National Question must transcend party politics

At the inaugural joint meeting of the All Party Representative Committee and the Panel of Experts on Constitutional Reform, held on July 11 President Mahinda Rajapaksa reached out eloquently to all political parties, and the LTTE, to join hands and engage in a dialogue to reach a consensus to address the causes for the current conflict in Sri Lanka and find a constitutional solution.

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