Arrangements are underway to hold the 37th Asia-Pacific Conference of the United Nations World Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) from tomorrow (Feb 19) to February 22.
Agriculture ministers of 42 countries belonging to this region are due in Sri Lanka and participate in this conference.
Also, on February 18, the agriculture ministers of Bangladesh, Iran, Japan, Maldives, China, Bhutan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines are also going to come to this country and participate in this conference.
Agriculture Minister of Tonga Sione Siale Fohe was the first to arrive on Friday followed by several others. The delegations with the Agriculture Ministers of Palau, Vanuatu, Fiji, Nepal also arrived at the Katunayake Airport on Friday night.
The delegations with the Ministers of Agriculture of Samoa and Marshall Island States also arrived at Katunayake Airport’s special guest room and Minister of State for Livestock Mr. DB Herath was present to welcome them.
Several more are due today.
Text and pix by: T.K.G. Kapila – Katunayake
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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