Geo-political reality and Sri Lankan foreign policy

Sri Lanka achieved several achievements in the field of foreign policy recently. The victory achieved at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva when it successfully defeated an attempt by powerful Western nations to censure Sri Lanka, the retreat of several advanced countries who earlier threatened to block the IMF standby facility to the country,

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Lakshman Kadirgamar, a statesman par excellence

Lakshman Kadirgamar was an exemplary, brilliant national leader who was respected by all communities in our country. He was gunned down four years ago on August 12 night, 2005 by the terrorist LTTE that considered him a political foe because he advocated a peaceful transformation of the Tamil community in accordance with democracy.

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International Youth Day falls today:

Prevention and control of youth violence

Now that terrorism initiated in the South by the JVP led by Rohana Wijeweera in 1971, 1987-1989 and in the North and East by Prabhakaran and his colleagues had been eliminated, my focus in this presentation will only address the topic in general terms applicable to all youth.

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