President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga greets US Secretary of State Colin Powell at the President’s House, yesterday. Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar is looking on Pictures by Dudley Wickramasinghe and Saman Mendis  President Kumaratunga greets Korean Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan at the President’s House yesterday . UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on arrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday. At left is Finance Minister Dr Sarath Amunugama. Picture by Thilak Perera

US committed to rebuild Sri Lanka

by Manjula Fernando

The visiting US Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday joint efforts on the relief front could be elevated to a political effort to achieve lasting peace.Following a short visit to devastated areas in Galle and Southern parts last afternoon, Powell, the first top level US leader to visit the country since 1972, said: "We hope that all Sri Lanka would come together during this crisis and work together. This we hope would lead to the resolution of political issues related to the peace process."
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Annan, Wolfensohn to tour tsunami-hit areas

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in Colombo yesterday evening for a tour of areas battered by the December 26 tsunamis. Annan, who arrived from Indonesia, was met at the Bandaranaike International Airport by Finance Minister Dr Sarath Amunugama.
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Canadian Prime Minister to visit Lanka

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin will visit areas stricken by the tsunami disaster in Thailand and Sri Lanka later this month, an official said. Martin will amend a previously scheduled trip to Asia to visit Sri Lanka, the destination of a Canadian disaster relief team which left on Thursday, and Thailand, where most of the 146 Canadians still missing were on vacation.
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SWRD 106th birth anniversary

The 106th birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike falls today. The commemoration ceremony will be held at the S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike statue at Galle Face, Colombo, this afternoon.
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• Kuwait aid for tsunami victims pour

• Good news for illegal Lankans in Lebanon

• Psychiatrists recommend ways of coping trauma of tsunami affected

• New consul of Jordan to Sri Lanka

• CB scheme for currency donations

• Private sector help for resettlement

• Task Force for logistics

• Mission to collect info on missing tourists

• US aircraft carrier heads to Sri Lanka

• Tsunami relief from Melbourne

• IOM assists relief efforts in N-E and South

• Sri Lanka looks to rebuild

• IUCN mourns loss of life caused by Asia quake

• Lankan tsunami survivors wait in hope

• Land Reclamation and Development Corporation to build 2,000 houses

• Ahmadiyya medical service in the tsunami affected areas

• German aid aimed at relief and supporting tsunami victims

• PERC commences monitoring and evaluation process

• Vietnam Union sympathises

• Schools to begin on January 10

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