Post Conflict Development:

Efforts of a democracy

Address by Rohitha Bogollagama, MP Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka on Post Conflict Development: Efforts of a Democracy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London on April 1.

We have faced terrible suicide bombings of civilian targets, assassination of political leaders including my own predecessor the late Lakshman Kadirgamar and former President Premadasa. The people of the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka in particular, have been victims at the hands of this terrorist group, of brutal massacres, ethnic cleansing, child conscription and constant displacement.

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Green Airlines and energy efficiency:

A lesson for our times

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has recorded that aviation is responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions and by 2050 will represent 3%. Aviation is a small part of a major problem that of climate change. However the carbon footprint of the air transport industry is growing.

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