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Our approach for a better tomorrow free from terrorism Speech by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars: Washington, Tuesday, July 23, 2002. To make peace is perhaps more difficult and complex than to make war.
My Government, which won the Sri Lanka General Elections in December last
year on a mandate to end the North-East conflict has sought a different
course of action. We entered into a permanent ceasefire with the LTTE on
23rd February this year. From this we hope to move to peace talks in the
near future. Discussing the ceasefire before the Parliament of Sri Lanka
on 4th April, I recalled the words of Abraham Lincoln on the American
Civil War: "Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up
the nation's wounds". Our collective character and resolve as a
nation and society will be tested and challenged at every turn.
Nevertheless I have confidence and a realistic sense of optimism that this
time we shall consolidate the peace that has been initiated and sustain
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