Vietnamese President lauds victory over terror
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet highly
appreciated and lauded the bravery and bold steps taken by President
Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Sri Lankan Security Forces to defeat LTTE
terrorism. He commended the well orchestrated democratic
humanitarian mission to rescue the innocent civilians held hostage
by the LTTE.
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First Sri Lankan Head of State to visit Vietnam :
Warm welcome for President in Vietnam
President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived on a three
day official visit to Vietnam yesterday on the invitation of the
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet a historic step in the
relations between Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The Presidential entourage
reached Noibai International Airport yesterday, a press release from
the President’s Media Division said.
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The largest figure todate:
Over 41,000 IDPs resettled
The resettlement of the largest number of
Internally Displaced Persons of the North took place yesterday, with
41,685 persons resettled in Vavuniya, Mannar, Mullaitivu and
Kilinochchi, resettled in 108 Grama Niladhari Divisions of these
districts.
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Friends of Sri Lanka rally in support of Lankan trade with
Europe
The ‘Friends of Sri Lanka’ in the European
Parliament thwarted moves by some MEPs to seek to suspend Sri
Lanka’s GSP+ trade status in a hurriedly moved Urgency Resolution
debated in Strasbourg yesterday.
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President writes to IDP families
President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an emotional
letter written in Tamil to each family of the internally displaced
persons who were resettled in their original dwellings yesterday,
wished them every success and the choices blessings for the future
“with your dreams of success coming true when we can all live
together as members of a single family in our motherland”.
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