UNESCO to re-examine VoT issue - Matsuura
Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura has
assured Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in France and Delegate to the UNESCO,
that he will “re-examine the entire issue” on the UNESCO press
release issued earlier this week regarding the attack on the Voice
of Tigers (VoT) Station, states the Foreign Ministry.
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President on three-day official visit to Japan
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa will pay a three-day
official visit to Japan on the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister
Yasuo Fukuda from December 9 to 11. The purpose of this visit is to
widen existing bilateral relations between the two countries in the
economic, political, social, cultural and religious fields, a
Presidential Secretariat release said.
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Highest allocation for transport sector
TRANSPORT MINISTER Dullas Alahapperuma said
yesterday Budget 2008 for the first time in history has allocated
1.34 per cent from the Gross Domestic Production (GDP) to develop
the transport sector.
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Renewed SAARC political commitment must to fight terror - FM
SAARC countries need to strengthen domestic
legal infrastructure to give effect to the obligations undertaken
under the various international and regional conventions on
suppression of terrorism, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said
yesterday.
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