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By Jehan Perera The government has sent its “A Team” to Geneva to face the international human rights community and the UN Human Rights Commission. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has raised concerns about the lack of accountability in Sri Lanka. In her report, Bachelet said human rights violations and abuses […]
By Jehan Perera Every Independence Day there is the hope that the country will turn the corner and reach the potential it had in 1948. Leonard Woolf, the British Civil Servant, who wrote “Village in the Jungle” saw the newly independent country as a future ‘Switzerland of the East’ if it found a way to […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris during a three-day visit to Jaffna that ended up with a pow-wow with civil society activists at the Jaffna District Secretariat on Monday (31) repeatedly urged the Northern community to integrate with the South. Twice Foreign Minister Prof. Peiris who is also the Chairman of the ruling […]
Govt. wants to build on ex-Prez Sirisena’s initiative Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris and Indonesian Ambassador in Colombo Dewi Gustina Tobing recently discussed the early convening of the third session of the Joint Commission between the two countries to be held in Colombo and the need to follow up and build on the visit of […]
Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, Minister of State, has met with Sarath Weerasekera, Minister of Public Security of Sri Lanka, to discuss a number of issues of common concern. During the meeting, which was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs