Informes

IP/02/620 Brussels, 24th April 2002 - The European Commission is to finance two assistance programmes for internally displaced people and households affected by the conflict in Sri Lanka. The two projects are worth €3.35 million, and will be carried out…

COLOMBO, Apr 23, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The five-hour power cut imposed in Sri Lanka has been reduced to two hours from Monday to Saturday and only one hour on Sundays, according to Power and Energy Ministry. Minister of…

American Ambassador to Sri Lanka E. Ashley Wills welcomed a team of U.S.-funded demining experts to Sri Lanka on April 20. The team will be removing landmines and unexploded munitions around the northern city of Jaffna for the next…

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with two government ministers of Sri Lanka in Washington April 17 to discuss the peace process between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). In his talks with Enterprise Development and…

By Scott McDonald BENTOTA, Sri Lanka, April 15 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe held talks on Monday with Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgesen to finalise details for talks to end the island's nearly two-decade long ethnic…

The United States welcomed a commitment by Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Sri Lankan insurgent group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to seek peace and a negotiated political settlement to Sri Lanka's 19-year-old ethnic conflict, according to…

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government was upbeat about peace prospects on Thursday despite rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's refusal to give up his demand for a separate Tamil state after nearly two decades of war. But there was caution in…

News Release No. 051/02 MANILA, PHILIPPINES (9 April 2002) - With improvements in the global economy, Sri Lanka's economy is forecast to grow by 3.5 percent in 2002 and 5.5 percent in 2003, compared to the 1.3 percent contraction in…

News Release No. 01/02 COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (8 April 2002) - The Asian Development Bank has earmarked US$700 million in project financing and US$11 million in technical assistance for the development of Sri Lanka during the period 2003 to 2005.…

From ICRC News 02/14 On 1 April mine-clearance operations began on a stretch of highway between the forward defence lines of the government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on the Jaffna Peninsula. The operations, which are being…