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| Sunday, 19 May 2002 |
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Strategy to bring all people together in economic development by Elmo Leonard The Government was planning to introduce a strategy which would bring together all sections of the people in economic development, Minister of Economic Reform, Science and Technology Milinda Moragoda said recently. Sri Lanka's civil war of 19 years had kept out a large part of the nation, and its people out of the economic process. The conditions which the Government would create would ensure that every citizen of the country plays his/her part in the nation's development as never seen before, Moragoda said, at the 24th National Conference of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. A new school education policy, aimed at healing the social wounds and hatred consequent to the island's civil war, would soon be introduced. The new system would instill a spirit of cooperation among all segments of people, Moragoda said. Leaders of nations must acquire the vision to meet the diverse challenges countries are faced with. That vision should be passed down the line of government, and to the citizens of the country, Moragoda said. It was also necessary that leaders of nations set examples to facilitate the implementation of their foresight. The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka carried such ideals, and with it, the stamping out of corruption and nepotism, Moragoda continued. The Government was also committed to allow the advancement of entrepreneurship; safeguard the rights of workers and upgrade the lives of the poorest of the poor, while bringing the whole nation into a partnership. The Government's peace process has received much criticism. Minister Moragoda assured that the Government was not gullible in its handling of the peace process. It had consulted with other governments, including that of affluent friendly nations, before embarking on the peace process. "The Government was taking calculated risks, and risks were necessary in situations such as the one Sri Lanka was placed in," he said. |
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