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Lankan govt confident over peace efforts South Nexus, COLOMBO, Mar 04. The Sri Lankan Government is confident that President Chandrika Kumaratunga will not torpedo its peace initiatives despite her concerns and reservations about the cease-fire agreement with the LTTE, Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando has said. "Of course, she has expressed concern. She has issued a statement attacking the government, but at the same time, President Kumaratunga has agreed that the two parties should work together to resolve the northeast crisis," Fernando told media persons in Brisbane. He said he had assured leaders attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane that the President and Prime Minister would work together in the peace process and that it would succeed despite problems and obstacles. More... Published: Sun Mar 3 15:49:46 EST 2002

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Ask Mahinda Answers 1-28 now available! The Lanka Academic is delighted to announce the 8th guest in its series of Q & A sessions: Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament. With the recent change in leadership in the Sri Lankan government, the peace process appears to be gaining fresh new momentum. This is your opportunity to ask questions from Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa related to Sri Lankan politics and receive answers by clicking here. The answers will appear here.

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Norwegian general to meet LTTE chief Gulf-News, march 4. A retired Norwegian army general, heading the international monitoring mission of the ceasefire agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil guerrillas, is finalising a team of Scandinavians who will monitor the ceasefire as he prepares to meet guerrilla chief Velupillai Prabharkaran...

Common goal to fight terror The Toronto Star, march 3. Canada will assist smaller Commonwealth countries that embrace the fight against terrorism after leaders agreed here yesterday to co-operate on money-laundering and other legislative crackdowns...

LTTE's salvo against Chandrika The Hindu (International), march 3. The London-based pointman for the peace process, Anton Balasingham, has described the concerns raised by the Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, with regard to the ceasefire agreement as "irresponsible, injurious and ill-advised...

Tyronne calls for anti-terror action Sunday Observer, March 03, 2002. Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando urged the Commonwealth meeting in Brisbane, Australia, yesterday to adopt extra measures to deal with the problem of terrorism...

Sri Lanka mission to issue birth certificates Gulf-News, march 4. The Sri Lankan consulate in Dubai has made arrangements to issue birth certificates to Sri Lankan babies free of cost...

Sri Lanka for better trade ties with Pakistan dawn, march 4. The Consul General of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Pakistan, P...

Govt agrees to Parliament monitoring Committee on ceasefire agreement The Island, March 4, 2002. The government yesterday agreed to the appointment of a parliamentary committee with a mandate to assess on a continuing basis the implementation of the Cessasation of Hostilites Agreement between the government and LTTE...

Expats welcome ceasefire agreement in Sri Lanka Gulf-News, march 3. Sri Lankan expatriates living in Abu Dhabi have warmly welcomed the ceasefire agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), hoping that both parties will find a permanent solution to the decades-old conflict...

Aggreko's Saudi branch supplies power to Sri Lanka Nothern Light, Sunday, March 03, 2002 5:57 AM EST . Aggreko International's Saudi subsidiary located in Jebel Ali recently signed four new contracts with Sri Lanka's Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) to provide short-term temporary power to help relieve the ongoing power shortages in the country, confirmed a press release...

Hope on the horizon Frontline, 04 March 2002. SRI LANKA made significant forward movement on the road to peace when Vidar Helgesen, the Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Norway, arrived in Colombo on February 7, leading a peace delegation consisting of Erik Solheim, Special Adviser to the Foreign Ministry, and Kjirste Tromsdal, a Ministry official...

LTTE demands army withdrawal from Tamil areas HindustanTimes, March 3. At a massive rally signifying a ‘Tamil Upsurge’ in Vavuniya on Friday, the LTTE upped the ante by demanding the withdrawal of the Sri Lankan armed forces from the ‘traditional homeland’ of the Tamils in the North and East of the island, and the dismantling of state-sponsored Sinhalese colonies there, media reports said...

Tigers flay Chandrika for opposing truce pact Press Trust of India, Colombo,Sunday, March 03, 2002. The LTTE has accused Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga of seeking to sabotage its truce agreement with the government by what it called her irresponsible and ill-advised opposition to it...

The War on Terror Points a Country Toward Peace NYT, march 3. ust over the horizon from Afghanistan, another war on terror may be drawing to a close...

Sri Lanka Test team leaves for Pakistan for final match The Hindustan Times, Colombo, March 3 . The Sri Lankan cricket team left for Pakistan on Sunday to play in the final Test in the Asian Test Championship, a spokesman for the Board of Control for Cricket said...

Sri Lankans cook up giant milk rice dish MSNBC, march 3. An army of 150 Sri Lankan cooks cracked 2,000 coconuts and boiled more than one tonne of rice on Sunday to work up a mammoth dish of traditional milk rice...

Solheim Finalising Truce Monitoring Mission Saroj Pathirana in London. Saturday 02/03/02 1935 GMT Norwegian government’s official peace envoy on Sri Lanka Erik Solheim is finalising the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), the body which oversees the cease-fire agreement signed between the government and the Tamil Tigers...

Ratwatte's detained sons lead life of luxury in hospital Gulf-News, 03 March 2002. Two sons of former deputy defence minister General Ratwatte, who are to be charged for conspiracy to murder and now in custody, have been allocated two beds and three prisoners to act as personal valets, showing signs that they were still able to curry favour from authorities...

President Herself invited Norwegians- Justice Minister Saroj Pathirana in London. Saturday 02/03/02 1840 GMT It was the President Kumaratunga who initially invited Norwegian government to facilitate the peace process between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE, a senior minister said...

Cease-fire monitors arrived in Sri Lanka Leo de Lile in Colombo, 1.00 pm, SLT, March. 02, 2002. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in right shakes hands with retired Mjr...

JVP Provoking Sinhala Masses Against Tamils- Madampagama Assaji Thero Saroj Pathirana in London. Saturday 02/03/01 1725 GMT Peace is not a cup of poison for the Mahasanga (Buddhist monks) as some opportunist politicians pointed out, a leading Buddhist monk said...

Norwegian general begins Lanka truce monitoring Times of India, SATURDAY, MARCH 02 . A retired Norwegian army general arrived in Sri Lanka Saturday to start monitoring a ceasefire between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said...

Commonwealth heads urge unity against "terrorism" Yahoo India, march 2. Commonwealth leaders agreed at their summit in Australia on Saturday to expel any member state that aided, financed or harboured terrorists...

3 Asians nations represented in ICC Referees' panel Yahoo India, March 2. The International Cricket Council has shed its image of being biased in favour of the white Test-playing nations and included three Asian countries on its new elite panel of International Match Referees...

Norwegian Gen. in Lanka as deal faces storm The Hindu NUS, Colombo, March 2. (PTI). A former Norwegian Army General who will head a mission in Sri Lanka to oversee the truce between the Government and LTTE arrived here today, amidst political opposition to the role assigned to Oslo in the ceasefire agreement, officials said...

Chandrika seeks amendments to truce accord NDTV/MSNBC, Saturday, March 2, 2002 . Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has expressed reservations about the ceasefire accord signed by her archrival Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with the LTTE...

U.S. Secretary Colin Powell Calls Prime Minister Wickremesinghe to Express American Support US Embassy - Sri Lanka, 02 March 2002. Colombo, 1 March 2002: The American Embassy announced today that Secretary of State Colin Powell called Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on March 1 to express strong American support for the recently signed agreement establishing an indefinite cease-fire between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE...

Love's labour lost for Sri Lankan cross-dresser MSNBC, march 2. A young Sri Lankan woman has filed for divorce three months into her marriage after discovering her husband was really a woman, a newspaper reported on Friday...

Ceasefire boost for Sri Lanka tourism Telegraph UK, March 2. SRI Lanka could become a popular holiday destination again - if a ceasefire signed between the newly elected government and Tamil Tiger rebels successfully ends 19 years of conflict...

Sri Lanka's Energy Minister Resolves to Solve Power Crisis Nothern Light, Friday, March 01, 2002 11:20 PM EST . COLOMBO, Mar 2, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lankan Minister of Power and Energy Karu Jayasuriya said on Friday that he would resign if the current power crisis is not resolved by June this year, The Island newspaper reported on Saturday...

JVP burns copy of ceasefire accord gulf news, march 1. The Marxist-nationalist People's Liberation Front (JVP) publicly burnt a copy of the ceasefire agreement signed between the government and the LTTE at a mass rally on Thursday night and said Sri Lanka had been turned into a colony of Norway in the process...

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