Reports

COLOMBO, May 23, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has briefed President Chandrika Kumaratunga on the current Norwegian-brokered peace process, government officials said on Thursday. The president has asked the prime minister to get the Liberation…

Ministry for Foreign Affairs Press release The Government decided today to commission the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to recruit a further two civilian observers to the Nordic monitoring mission in Sri Lanka. On 28 February 2002,the Government decided that…

By Juliana Liu COLOMBO (Reuters) - More than 71,000 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka's ethnic war have returned home this year as a Norwegian-brokered peace bid raised hopes of an end to nearly two decades of conflict, the U.N. refugee…

CONTEXT AND PURPOSE The Internal Displacement Unit was invited by UNHCR, Sri Lanka, to undertake an assessment on internal displacement in that country. With prospects for peace brought about by a cease-fire signed between the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL)…

COLOMBO, May 6 (Reuters) - The European Commission pledged 3.35 million euros ($3 million) on Monday to help Sri Lankans displaced by a 19-year-old ethnic conflict reclaim their lives. The aid comes as a result of a February ceasefire signed…

Colombo (dpa) - International monitors on Thursday began probing a complaint by the Sri Lankan government about a major ceasefire violation by Tamil separatist rebels off the eastern coast of the country, a government spokesman said. The head of the…

COLOMBO, May 1, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lanka will achieve a 3.7 percent economic growth rate this year after it suffered a negative 1.4 percent rate last year, the lowest since the country's independence in 1948, according…

COLOMBO, May 1 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's truce monitors said on Wednesday they were probing reports the navy had shot and wounded two Tamil civilians, the first known casualties since the government and Tamil rebels signed a ceasefire two…

No. 83 Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham today announced $120,000 in funding for the Mine Action Resource Centre located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The contribution underscores Canada's ongoing support for the peace process in Sri Lanka, as well as its…

Colombo - The United Nations World Food Programme in Sri Lanka today welcomed a donation from the Government of Japan of $1.1 million to be used for the purchase of canned tuna for some 217,000 people whose lives have…