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Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris will leave for an official visit to the Russian Federation on Wednesday (23) at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, the Government Information Department said. Official talks on a range of issues of importance to both countries will be held with the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Russian Federation. The Minister is to visit t...
May 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris will pay an official visit to Russia and Kazakhstan, the External Affairs Ministry announced Monday.
The news of the presidential pardon for former army commander Sarath Fonseka which could see him free from prison would be welcomed by most Sri Lankans regardless of their political persuasions. At the time of his imprisonment it was scarcely possible to believe that the former army commander who had been hailed by the government as ...
Sri Lanka’s Expolanka Holdings PLC today acquired the controlling stake in Akquasun Holidays India Private Limited, by making an investment of US$ 915,000. Akquasun Holidays, a Mumbai-based destination management specialist is a B2B Destination Management network company. The firm is primarily mandated to attract traffic from emerging markets like India, Russia and China. “This acquisition gives ...
Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as president of Russia in a ceremony in the capital, Moscow, after winning a third term as president in controversial elections in March.
| by B.Raman ( May 05, 2012, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) During the years he fled from the jihadi battle-front in the Af-Pak region and took shelter in his hide-out in Abbottabad in Pakistan (2005-2011), Osama bin Laden was reduced to a pathetic Amir in arm-chair who exercised little authority or influence over the global jihad being waged by Al Qaeda and its associates. His advice was often so...
May 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka's largest business chamber, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) has entered into a deal with an organization representing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) to increase trade ties, the CCC said in a statement Thursday.
Sri Lanka’s largest business chamber has signed a deal with an organization representing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) to increase trade ties. The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce said it had inked the agreement with the Chamber for Promotion and Economic Development of the BRICS countries, which will promote products and services and ...
Colombo, May 3 (IANS) Sri Lanka's largest business chamber has signed a deal with an organization representing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) to increase trade ties, a statement said here Thursday.
Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has signed a co-operation agreement with the Chamber for Promotion and Economic Development of the BRICS countries to promote trade. Under the agreement, CCC will initially promote an identified range of products and services between Sri Lanka and BRIC countries and also facilitate alliances on reciprocal basis. The agreement has come into effect ...
( April 29, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka has once again, like many times in recent years, sought the assistance of China to help avert a balance of payments crisis and also fund two key projects, official and political sources said. In a visit just before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, that was kept under wraps, a team of officials led by Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera we...
Sri Lanka has once again, like many times in recent years, sought the assistance of China to help avert a balance of payments crisis and also fund two key projects, official and political sources said. In a visit just before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, that was kept under wraps, a team of officials led by Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera went to China and secured assurances of a US$1....
China And Russia Not There For UPR By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Four countries that voted against the US backed resolution on Sri Lanka at the 19th UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva are to move out of the Council in June this year. Two of Sri Lanka’s key allies, China and Russia ...
A report from a UN mine removal expert says unexploded cluster munitions have been found in northern Sri Lanka, appearing to confirm, for the first time, that the weapons were used in that country’s long civil war. The revelation is likely to increase calls for an international investigation into possible war crimes stemming from the bloody ...
Shift The Human Rights Council made a shift from May 2009 by voting (March 22) to criticize the Sri Lankan government for “not adequately address... serious allegations of violations of international law” when conducting its final phases of war against the liberation guerrilla army LTTE (Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam), which ended, May 18, 2009, with government-caused ...
“Will Destroy The Industry” Dilmah Boss By Dinouk Colombage Sri Lanka’s globally recognised tea industry has been hit by a major controversy with the industry divided over a proposal by the Tea Exporters Association to import cheap tea for blending with local tea. Merrill Fernando, former chairman of the Tea Council of Sri Lanka and ...
A recent article by one of the senior journalists at Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, brought back memories of better than three decades of life (and political activism) in that country. I speak here of John Ibbitson’s piece commemorating and celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the introduction and adoption of the Canadian Charter ...
By Surendra Ajith Rupasinghe The aftermath of the Geneva drama has brought out new dimensions and intensified contradictions internationally, regionally and locally. This article is an initial attempt to strategically map the emerging scenario and position the various major players and locate their respective agendas, and charter a path to freedom and democracy. The Role ...
Fat burners do not burn fat, literally; aphrodisiacs are frustratingly passionless; tablets to prolong passion fall short of the desired duration; green tea is trying to slim fat bodies; memory enhancers inevitably cause dementia; Minoxidil and hair formulae keep heads balding; and beauty products create superficial, transient beauty. There are medications to elongate the phallus ...
Apr 17, Colombo: The Sri Lanka Embassy in Moscow, Russia has published a Catalogue of Tourism in Sri Lanka in Russian language to promote Sri Lanka as a tourist destination in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries including Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan .
Sri Lanka has compiled a tourist guide book in Russian language to promote the Island nation among the people of the former communist country. The initiative, which is a move by the Sri Lankan embassy in Russia, contains the country profile, places to visit in Sri Lanka, information about accommodation facilities, available leisure activities and emergency ...
Russia, which voted against the US Resolution on ‘Accountability and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka’ at the UNHRC recently, said that the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime should now focus its attention on implementing its very own LLRC recommendations.
Elsewhere on these pages an article has been published questioning the viability of Sri Lanka’s over 100 year old tea industry, which is also the island’s third largest foreign exchange (forex) earner, ipso facto from income derived from the export of tea. A question mark hangs over Its future based on rising costs, made worse ...
Sri Lanka has further solidified air ties with Russia and Japan. A new Air Services Agreement between Sri Lanka and the Russian Federation has been signed in Moscow. Udayanga Weeratunga, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Russia Valery M. Okulov, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation inked the agreement. The new Air Services Agreement replaces ...
A new Air Services Agreement between Sri Lanka and the Russian Federation was signed in Moscow on Monday, the External Affairs Ministry said. Udayanga Weeratunga, Ambassador of SriLanka in the Russian Federation signed the Agreement on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka while Mr. Valery M. Okulov, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation signed on behalf of the Government of the...
Without criticizing India directly for backing the US-initiated resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council, Russia has described the resolution as politically motivated and one...
Without criticizing India directly for backing the US-initiated resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council, Russia has described the resolution as “politically motivated” and one that has ended up discrediting the Council itself. The remark by Russian ambassador to New Delhi Alexander M Kadakin, ahead of the BRICS summit in New ...
Let’s learn the right lessons from the Geneva outcome, not the wrong ones. It is not the case that a small country such as Sri Lanka cannot fight a diplomatic battle with the mighty USA and win. Minutes after the Sri Lanka vote at the HRC this time, the Cubans moved a resolution on the composition ...
Sri Lanka is among eleven countries which may be subjected to American financial sanctions for failing to cut on oil imports from Iran, Russia Today newspaper revealed.
Russia has emphasized that it cannot permit powerful countries to interfere in small countries under the guise of human rights. Russia’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka Vladimir P. Mikhailov made this reference issuing a statement on the adoption of a Resolution against Sri Lanka in Geneva. The Russian Ambassador said that the United Nations network should ...