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External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris appears to have taken the pursuit of the country’s foreign policy fast forward to new millennia. He perceives that perhaps sooner than later Sri Lanka will emerge as a producer of offensive weapons. That is after Sri Lankan troops have victoriously ended a two and half decade separatist war and the [...]
After the polls, Rajapaksa consolidates his position
Ten new deputy ministerial posts for MPs who worked hard for UPFA victory Wigneswaran to take oaths tomorrow before meeting Khurshid Govt. approves Sampur project despite warnings by Champika and UNP It has been trouble shooting for President Mahinda Rajapaksa since he returned to Sri Lanka after a visit to the United States. The official [...]
From rhetoric to reality
My Dear Wigneswaran, I thought I must write to you again because congratulations are in order after you were elected as the Chief Minister of the Northern Province at elections held a couple of weeks ago. Now all that is left to do, it seems, is to take oaths in your new job. I know [...]
No tectonic shift in ‘state land being vested in the Republic’
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s repeated claim, (pronounced with appropriate gravitas most recently to Al Jazeera), is that Sri Lanka does not exhibit authoritarian or dictatorial tendencies as it holds regular elections at which his government is comfortably elected into power. Unitary nature of the State never disputed Predictably, the recent elections to the Northern Provincial Council [...]
Sustaining export performance and curbing imports, imperative
Given a bleak trade performance in the first half of this year, even a modest improvement in the trade deficit is a hopeful sign. While one swallow does not make a summer, the better trade performance brought about by an increase in export earnings in July gives rise to expectations of a reduction in the [...]
What happened to the Muslim vote?
The most significant development in politics this week would seem to be the resolving of issues that had arisen over the swearing-in of Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran. According to reports he is to be sworn in before President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo tomorrow. Anything less than swearing in before the president [...]