The United States and Sri Lanka, mutual strategies in
development and security
Sujata Jayawardena Memorial Oration by Robert O. Blake Jr.,
Ambassador of the United States of America to Sri Lanka and the
Maldives at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies on
November 28.
It is clear that as we confront terrorism,
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other transnational
challenges, the heartland of those challenges will be in a band of
countries that spans from North Korea to the Middle East. The future
of Sri Lanka is therefore very important to us. You are located
astride the sea lanes that will carry an increasing proportion of
global trade and global energy...
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India and Singapore join forces to revive ancient Buddhist
university
'Reviving Buddhist Cultural Links' was the theme
of a one day symposium held in Singapore recently to initiate an
ambitious plan to revive India's ancient Nalanda University as a
leading international seat of learning which would revive the old
intellectual and spiritual ties between South and East Asia.
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