Minister Peiris tells Tamil Expatriates:
Help rebuild
External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris on an official visit in
USA urged the Tamil expatriates worldwide to get involved in the
rehabilitation process in Sri Lanka expedited with the end of LTTE
terrorism.
Speaking from the UN Headquarters in New York, Minister Peiris told
the BBC that the Government is stepping up efforts to resettle displaced
Tamil people.
"Well as far as the diaspora are concerned our hope very much is that
they would involve themselves constructively in the efforts that are now
being made to rebuild the North and East of the country," the BBC
reported quoting the Minister.
"There is a great deal of valuable work for them to do and the whole
thrust of the Government's initiative is inclusive. We want to involve
the people of the North and the East and the diaspora," he added. Prof
Peiris further said an economic renaissance was improving people's lives
all over Sri Lanka.
"And what we are seeing is a kind of economic renaissance, a revival
of economic life in those parts of the country which have been affected
by the war which has gone for the better part of two decades," he said.
Minister Peiris is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Hilary Clinton
Friday.
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