Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar and Pakistani Commerce Minister Hamayun Akhtar Khan sign the protocol to the Lanka-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement. President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Prime Minister Sahukat Aziz, Minister Ferial Ashraff and High Commissioner Srilal Weerasooriya are looking on.  Picture by Sudam Gunasinghe

New era for ties between Sri Lanka, Pakistan

From Pramod de Silva in Pakistan

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday ended a successful official visit to Pakistan, the main highlight of which was the signing of the landmark Free Trade Agreement between the two SAARC partners.
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Focus on FTA, regional issues in bilateral talks

From Pramod de Silva in Pakistan

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and and Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz held wide-ranging talks in Islamabad yesterday, before the signing of the FTA.
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Lanka committed to negotiated political solution - President

From Pramod de Silva in Pakistan

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga Tuesday re-iterated her Government's steadfast commitment to continue and peruse a comprehensive negotiated political solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic issue.
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