A new horizon for North, East fishermen

Nearly two third of the Sri Lankan coast line is in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. In order to ensure safety and security of the people, the fishing activities in these areas had been restricted during the past few decades. But soon after the Northern Province was liberated,on the intervention of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Senior Presidential Advisor MP Basil Rajapaksa these restrictions were lifted.

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Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy

In 1954, six years after independence, Sri Lanka’s application to be a full member of the United Nations was forestalled by Russia on the grounds that Sri Lanka was not a fully independent state. In fact, we were not, because we had British troops stationed at Trincomalee and were a ‘protectorate’ of Britain and would not have been capable of independent thinking in a world forum.

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Positioning Sri Lanka Tourism

Positioning - a pivotal concept in Marketing is about owning a particular position of an organization’s product/service or any offering of value in the minds of a well defined groups of customers. In sum, it is about getting one’s offering into the mind(s) of a targeted consumer(s), and occupying a particular place or position therein.

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