Bureaucrats in our foreign ministry must be a sad lot. The blunders the government makes in its relations with the outside world make one believe that their advice is no longer sought.
Ameen Izzadeen, How Sri Lanka’s foreign policy mechanics have degenerated, Khaleej Times, August 21, 2007.
Where the rot starts at the top, it will take no less than a change of heart and strategy on the part of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to go back to his roots as a human rights champion in the opposition and to make the difference.
Jehan Perera, Government has potential to do what is right, Daily Mirror, August 21, 2007.
MIG 27 fighters were purchased to save the lives of the SL citizens by destroying a terror outfit that murders the people of this country. However, the procurement of MIG 27 fighters seems to have hurt certain segments other than the LTTE.
The MIG27 affair - Fighter Pilots reveal what the "defence analysts" forgot to tell, Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka - Geneva - Switzerland.
Sri Lanka's population of the internally displaced has shot up ever since violence and fighting involving government forces, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the breakaway LTTE group led by Karuna escalated sharply from December 2005.
M.R. Narayan Swamy, Refugees within Sri Lanka face pathetic situation: study, India Muslims, August 20, 2007.
There are now fresh hopes of a negotiated settlement to the vexatious and violence-ridden ethnic strife in Sri Lanka, after all. On the one hand, All-Party Representative Committee (APRC) Chairman, Minister Tissa Vitharana, has asserted that a consensus package on power-devolution would emerge this week, after all.
N Sathiya Moorthy, There are now fresh hopes of a negotiated settlement to the ethnic conflict, Daily Mirror, August 20, 2007.
Also See:
Tony Corn, The Revolution in Transatlantic Affairs, Real Clear Politics, August 21, 2007.
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