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Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama yesterday said B.
Lynn Pascoe, United Nations Under Secretary General for Political
Affairs, would visit the Vavuniya welfare centres for the internally
displaced persons this week. Speaking to The Island Bogollagama said President
Mahinda Rajapaksa had telephoned UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on
Monday regarding the impending..
Claim of secret plan to
sell 38 m.t gold dismissed
Dismissing UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s recent
claim that the government was planning to sell 38 metric tons of gold
held by the Central Bank, Deputy Finance Minister Ranjith
Siyambalapitiya yesterday accused...
‘There is some level of
known terrorist activity in Sri Lanka’
The Acting British High Commissioner Mark Gooding believe that there is
"some level of known terrorist activity" in Sri Lanka. The following is
the full text of Gooding’s statement: "The Foreign and Commonwealth
Office...
Eighteen
Pakistani women die in stampede for free flour
At least 18 women and girls died...
The damning
indictment
The Sri Lankan ambassador in Brussels Ravinatha
Ariyasinghe, sent the interim...
