Bilateral talks between Sri Lanka and Ukraine

I am sincerely glad to welcome President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa in Ukraine with the official visit. I am confident this first top-level visit in the history of our countries will be a landmark event in bilateral relations and open new opportunities for development of Ukrainian-Sri Lankan cooperation.

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The Morning Inspection

A new address for the EC’s Directorate General for Trade?

The Minister of External Affairs, Prof. G. L. Peiris received a letter recently. It came from the office of the European Commission. It was not exactly a show-cause letter, but it was essentially a snub, a threat and more of a ‘chapter-closing’ kind of missive.

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English education in Sri Lanka

Public discourse on Sri Lankan English began with its discovery by the Presidential Initiative in the precincts of Sri Lankan academia and its adoption as a kind of ideological flagship by the Presidential Task Force on English and IT which is mandated by President Rajapaksa to ‘nationalize’ the English language so to say:

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