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The Assistant Government Agent (AGA) of the Thunkkai division of the Mullathivu district was killed in a roadside claymore mine last evening (29), reports revealed. The area has yet not being liberated by the security forces and is presently controlled by the LTTE. Reports revealed that AGA N.Nanthakumar (36) succumbed to a claymore attack when riding a motorcycle. The incident is reported to have taken place between Ampalaperumal Kulm and Koddaikasiya Kulam. Meanwhile refuting the claims of pro-LTTE media which said that troops are responsible for this attack, Military Spokesmen Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told that the security forces have not entered this area yet and a 21 km distance has to be covered to reach it from Welioya. "The AGA may have refused to carry out LTTE orders," he added. It has been the regular practice of the LTTE terrorists to blame on the military for assassinations carried out by LTTE with the intention of disgracing the military and thereby to apply

Jayantha Wickramaratne Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police is to be appointed as the next IGP with effect from 2nd July. Wickramaratne is a former Media Spokesperson for the Police, is currently serving in the Southern Province. He will succeed DIG Victor Perera who will be retiring shortly.

Final Nomination lists of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) for the upcoming election in the Sabaragamuwa and the North Central provinces will be announced by the end of next week, UPFA Secretary, Susil Premajayantha said. According to the Secretary, the UPFA will give nominations to all members of the previous Sabaragamuwa and North Central Provincial Councils. The UPFA requests it’s constituent parties to submit the names of their candidates to the nomination committee before the end of next week. He said that the final decision on the nomination lists will be taken by this committee of Messrs Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka, Maithripala Sirisena, D. M. Jayaratne, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Dullas Alahapperuma and Susil Premajayantha. He said that the Sri Lanka Freedom Party commenced its political campaign on an electoral basis last Saturday (21) in the Sabaragamuwa and North Central Provinces.-Admin

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva wishes to contradict several inaccuracies and distortions contained in a report in the London Daily Express, which seems to have been echoed by certain other news organizations, to the effect that Sri Lanka called for the abolition of the British monarchy. There was no such call, not by Sri Lanka and not by the UN Human Rights Council. Indeed the quote cited in the Daily Express does not include such a call. It recommends only that the UK 'consider' the holding of a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican, with a bill of rights. The Daily Express has omitted the reference to a bill of rights. The entire matter is regarded as subject to the sovereign decision of the British people, and the recommendation is that the UK considers the ascertainment of their wishes by means of a referendum. It contains the further qualifier of 'the desirability or otherwise

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We are living in a country, which is badly torn by a vicious 28 year old war. Over 70,000 lives have perished so far, simply because we have failed to eliminate the brutal terrorist organization we have been fighting with. Why we have failed in the battle may have myriad explanations. Among them what stands out most is the failure of successive governments to rally sufficient international and public support to sustain any meaningful military effort. This failure should be attributed to the strong anti Sri Lankan propaganda mechanism operated by the LTTE sympathizers and indeed to the lack of counter strategies on the part of the government. However, today our nation's struggle to be rid of terrorism has come to its most decisive stage. It has been proven more than once that we are dealing with an enemy with whom no rational dialogue is possible. We suffered many painful losses in learning this bitter lesson. We may be a nation notorious for having short memories, but we cannot aff

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, addressing the FAO Conference on food security in Rome today, gave an overview of the situation in Sri Lanka with respect to the challenges of climate change and bioenergy. He also proposed the setting up of Regional Food Security Funds so that the financial and technological resources within a given region can be better employed to expand food production, improve storage and distribution. Mr. ChairmanPresident of the Republic of Italy,Secretary General of the United Nations,Director General of FAO,Excellencies,Distinguished Participants,Ladies and Gentle men,I greatly value this opportunity to present Sri Lanka's views on the crisis in global food supply that has taken center stage in world affairs. It is a crisis with the potential to have a crippling effect on the smaller, less developed countries withrestrictions on the availability of arable land and financial resources. A crisis in food becomes all the more serious as it impacts most severely on t