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Govt will present its position clearly at the UNHRC – Foreign Secretary, Prof. Jayanath Colombage
Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage spoke to the Sunday Observer to explain about the upcoming UNHRC position. Excerpts: Q: As far as Sri Lanka is concerned what will happen at the upcoming UNHRC sessions beginning late February? In 2015 we co-sponsored a resolution 30/1, which is detrimental to Sri Lanka as a sovereign nation. Then again in 2018 and 2019,...
24 January, 2021
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India cannot solve Indo-Sri Lanka problems on Tamil lies
In continuing last week’s article on how lies manufactured and manipulated by charismatic leaders and mediocre theorists can distort the perceptions of the masses and lead societies to violence I must make a brief diversion, before I come to the local context – my main purpose -- to focus on how Donald Trump is leaving the White House as the most dangerous President that...
24 January, 2021 0
Govt has no idea of selling ECT to any foreign country - Dr. Ramesh Pathirana
Co-cabinet Spokesman and Minister of Plantation Dr.Ramesh Pathirana said under any circumstances, the Government has no idea of selling the East Container Terminal (ECT) of the Colombo Port to any foreign country. The Minister in an interview with the Sunday Observer said the agreement pertaining to the ECT was signed by the former Yahapalana Government in 2017 as a...
24 January, 2021 0
The difference between ‘slash and burn’ and scorched earth politics
The real environmental conundrum in this country seems to be that nobody knows where slash and burn cultivation left off, and slash and burn politics began. The President’s recent speech at Uhana was seemingly on aspects of slash and burn agriculture. A certain amount of forest cover in the country from the OSF or Other State Forests areas have been going under the axe of...
17 January, 2021 0
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Lessons Learnt from Lies of Trump
The drama he has staged so far has echoes of a Shakespearean..., It is true that he became a victim of his own lies.
After giving leadership to his futile and disastrous insurrection to remain in the White House Donald Trump, the lame duck President of America, has agreed at last to move out – I wouldn’t call it a peaceful transition of power -- on January 20, leaving America in shambles. There are more troops (20,000 National Guards) now in Washington D.C. than all the troops in...
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