Making Sri Lanka a dynamic hub
Text of the speech by President Mahinda Rajapaksa
to the Diplomatic Corps at the Presidential Secretariat, Colombo on
May 10:
You would recall that several previous attempts
were made to have negotiations for peace with the LTTE. On my own
initiative, one of my first statements after assuming the office of
President was to publicly confirm my readiness to meet with the
leader of the LTTE. I sent senior delegates for negotiations at both
Geneva and Oslo with great expectations. But those attempts proved
to be fruitless.
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There is more to it than meets the eye
Here everyone has a role to play. Everyone’s bit
counts. This is true, regardless of it being for the good of the
society and communities around, as much as it is, when what it
yields is bad and ugly. It’s all interwoven, interconnected and
interdependent.
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Somethings get lost, some ‘lost-ed’
Years ago, as a young undergraduate, I was given
a book by Arjuna Parakrama. It was called ‘Fire from the mountain:
the making of a Sandinista’. It was the story of a rebel, the
author, Omar Cabezas. It relates how Omar, at the time a student
leader in the university is recruited by the Sandinistas and taken
into the mountains to be trained to fight the guerrilla war against
Somoza.
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