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Karu allays fears of fuel shortage Power and Energy Minister, Karu Jayasuriya, on Friday allayed fears of a fuel shortage, in the event of a US attack on Iraq, and assured that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) was maintaining a good buffer stock of fuel. The public should have no cause to panic over a possible crisis. The Minister further said that necessary arrangements have been made to ensure uninterrupted supply of fuel and reassured that the public will not be subjected to any inconveniences. When asked whether the CPC had also contacted the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) which now runs several oil farms in Trincomalee with arrangements to have islandwide sales outlets, the Minister said that all options were being taken into consideration, including a tie-up with IOC. BMICH to be renamed The BMICH, to be renamed the BMICH Convention Centre of Sri Lanka, on May 17, will also have the largest exhibition centre in South Asia, when the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre is officially opened also on the same date. The BMICH is a self-dependent entity and recorded its highest profit of Rs. 12 million in 2001. French foreign state minister here French Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Renaud MUSELIER will arrive in Sri Lanka today for a four day tour of the island. This is the first visit by a Cabinet minister to the country since 1996. He is scheduled to meet the President, the Prime Minister and hold working meetings with his counterparts and tour Jaffna. Dr. Jayalath on tour of Jaffna Minister of Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Refugees, Dr. Jayalath Jayawardane, will be on a tour of Jaffna from 7 to 11 of this month. Seven-hundred-and-fifty students from 21 schools in the North will tour South on February 7. This has been initiated by the Minister in collaboration with the GTZ Jaffna Rehabilitation programme of the Federal Republic of Germany. On February 10, the Minister will visit 95 welfare centres in the Jaffna district and donate gift items (non-food) to 2,208 families worth several millions of rupees. On February 11, he will accompany the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of France, Renaud Muselier, and inspect the Jaffna Public Library and also inaugurate a development project in the Kayts island, co-financed by the French Government. Nomination papers handed over The Nomination papers of Mr. Ananda Wijesekera PC for President of the Bar Council of Sri Lanka were handed over to Returning Officer C.R. de Silva recently. Among his Proposers were 4 Past Presidents of the Bar Association - Eardley Perera PC, Romesh de Silva PC, Upali Gooneratne, Desmond Fernando PC (and former President of the International Bar Association). Also Shibly Azeez PC and Daya Perera PC. Seconders were Saleem Marsoof PC, Jed Gooneratne, Mrs. Pushpa Siva Narendran, Ranjan Mendis, Saliya Peiris and Thusantha Wijemanne. |
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