Rapports

It is the duty of all Sri Lankans to get together irrespective of petty politics and build a peaceful and united Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said on Saturday. Addressing the National War Heroes Day celebrations held in Kandy,…

The Tokyo Conference which will ensure international commitment and assistance for Sri Lanka's reconstruction and development will begin today at the Akasaka Prince Hotel. The conference will be attended by high-profile representatives from 32 countries and 20 multi-lateral donor agencies…

News Release No. 080/03 TOKYO, JAPAN (9 June 2003) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will consider an increase in its reconstruction and development assistance to Sri Lanka of up to US$1 billion over the next four years in order…

Hon Marian Hobbs New Zealand is promising a minimum of NZ$1.5 million over the next three financial years (2003/04 to 2005/06) to support reconstruction and peace in Sri Lanka, Aid Minister Marian Hobbs announced today. This pledge will be formally…

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage June 9 called on Sri Lankan President Kumaratunga and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to take the needed steps toward peace in Sri Lanka. Armitage was speaking at the Sri…

The Government of the Republic of Korea yesterday granted a sum of US$ 50,000 for flood relief in response to an urgent international appeal made by the Sri Lankan Government, states a Korean Embassy press release. The Ambassador to Korea…

Ip/03/810 Brussels, 06 June 2003 - The European Commission, together with the EU Presidency, will be one of the 4 co-chairs of the Conference on Reconstruction and Development of Sri Lanka to be held on 9-10 June in Tokyo. This…

Appeal Target: US$ 21,119 Geneva, 6 June 2003 Dear Colleagues, Muttur, in Trincomalee district on the north- eastern coast is an area where Muslims and Tamils have coexisted peacefully. But the two decade long violent ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese and the…

By Chamath Ariyadasa COLOMBO, June 6 (Reuters) - A Tamil Tiger rebel boycott of a donor meeting to raise money to rebuild Sri Lanka could result in less aid being pledged and mean more conditions are attached to the money,…

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