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Opinion:
Sri Lanka issues and US:
Assessing LTTE rump strategy
Secretary to the President, Lalith Weeratunga, at
a media briefing on Wednesday in Colombo, presented his take of men
and matters and events during his most recent diplomatic endeavour
in Geneva and Washington DC to explain the ‘Sri Lanka side of the
story’ as opposed to the ‘story’ given by the separatist Tiger
activists within the Tamil Diaspora,
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We are passionate about implementing LLRC recommendations -
Secretary to the President
The Army court submissions would come out soon
on matters related to civilian casualties in the end stage of the
war on terrorism said Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga,
who is heading the Task Force for implementing the National Action
Plan on LLRC recommendations.
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Opposition parties, no challenge to the UPFA :
Focus on child-centred programs - Prasanna Ranatunga
We reduced the teacher student ratio from 1:26
to 1:20. Now for every 20 students we are having one teacher. We are
planning to improve this further. During my tenure I have provided
jobs for 12,000 graduates in the province. I also initiated a
program to train all teachers in the province and now 99 percent of
the teachers serving in the province are trained teachers. We also
looked into the welfare issues of the teachers by expediting the
process of providing pensions and introducing an insurance scheme
for teachers.
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International dialogue on HR politicised, double standards
- Russian Human Rights Envoy
Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry Director of the
Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, Anatoly
Viktorov refuted the need for an international inquiry against Sri
Lanka on war crimes saying international dialogue in the sphere of
human rights was rife with politicisation and double standards.
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