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The Long Littleness of Life: A Memoir of Government, the United Nations, Family and Friends by Leelananda De Silva (Stamford Lake Publication) 305pp Rs 1,000/- Reviewed by Jayantha Somasundaram Leelananda De Silva’s autobiography is almost a textbook narrative of the generation that inherited a post-Independent Ceylon. Many of that generation were children of the gentry […]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI) in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia organized a ceremonial opening and hybrid seminar to raise awareness on seven decades of friendly and mutually beneficial diplomatic relations between the two Asian countries, an […]

By Leelananda de Silva One day in late November 1970, I received a telephone call from Professor H.A.de.S Gunasekara who had been appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Employment (MY/P&E) in July 1970. This was the same ministry of planning and economic affairs of Dr. Gamani Corea, but it changed its name […]

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By Leelananda de Silva From 1973 to 1977, I accompanied the Prime Minister, Mrs. Bandaranaike on many trips abroad. My task was to advice her on the economic issues. My first trip with her was to Algiers for the Fourth Non Aligned Summit, and that included visits to Rome and the Vatican. The next visit […]

BEIJING, June 23 (Xinhua) -- China commends the Nepali government decision not to move ahead on the State Partnership Program (SPP) with the United States, a Fo

Itsjust about its just about language and everything _ its just about language and everything else. _ but for the dup, i its more than that. every time you hear— jeffrey donaldson saying that, talk about it, as he did i when when they came out of stormont, refusing to toj cooperate with the election of a speaker, he said, - "weve got to get rid of this. "the protocol has to go." hes not interested in half—measures —j thats the difficulty. before i bring injeffrey, can i ask you one questio...

Sam mcbride, who is political editor for the newsletter, which is one of the leading unionist papers in northern ireland, you said that polling of 80% of people in northern ireland, regardless of their views on this subject, whether theyre nationalist, republican or non—aligned, they do not trust what the british government says on the protocol. now, if they dont trust it and the eu dont trust it, theres a real problem here. well, ive got news for you. neither does the government. and, you kno...

PUTRAJAYA, May 8 — Malaysia does not recognise any unilateral sanctions on any country, unless the resolution for the sanctions was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah. “This has always been...

The irruption of new technologies which have deeply transformed our ways of life and the erosion of centenary or millennial norms, values and practices are the principal factors in the conflict between cosmopolitan secularism and civilizational rootedness.   The ongoing presidential elections in France are