UNIDO pleased with Government's focus on agro industries
Director General of United Nations Industrial
Development Organisation Dr Kandeh Yumkella says he is glad that the
Government of President Mahinda Rajapakse is focusing on the agro
sector as a prime factor of growth.
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Ethnic conflict: power-sharing seen as the answer
The need to move away from the present highly
centralised governing system and go for significant power sharing
with the periphery was what most speakers advocated last week, when
they gathered in Colombo at the symposium that followed the launch
of Negotiating Peace in Sri Lanka Volume I and II, edited by Kumar
Rupasinghe.
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What is expected of a Local Government?
The word, 'local' according to the Oxford
dictionary, means 'place, belonging or peculiar to some place or
places.' With reference to 'Local Government Board' it adds the
following words:, "habitation, position in space as a test of what
is not imaginary'...
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