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FACE TO FACE: The nation’s economic future in the forthcoming year locked up in his red box (not in picture). Finance Minister K. N. Choksy, the country’s eleventh Finance Minister, faces up to the nation’s mass media in his office yesterday after completing his preparations to present the annual Government Budget in Parliament on Wednesday. Photo: Chinthaka Kumarasinghe

Rodney Martinesz reporting from Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, Saturday

The peace process took a leap forward here today with the LTTE accepting that the Joint Task Force would function entirely under Sri Lankan law and, the Government and the LTTE agreeing to set up a 'Political Committee' to begin to examine the long term political steps that must be taken for a comprehensive settlement of the ethnic conflict.
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Court judgement no deterrent to peace process

by Deepal Warnakulasuriya

The High Court sentence passed on Velupillai Prabhakaran, does not affect the peace process and the Opposition is making every effort to receive political advantages from it, Justice, Law Reforms and National Integration Minister W. J. M. Lokubandara told the Sunday Observer.
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