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UL gets brand new A330-300

Tuesday, 21st October 2014 Sara Pathirana SriLankan Airlines (UL) will be launching a brand new ‘A 330-300’ aircraft on October 31, sealing in the national carrier’s continuous quest of evolution in the aviation indust ...

MUNCHEE OPENS US$ 3M BANGLADESH PLANT

Tuesday, 21st October 2014 Shirajiv Sirimane (shirajivs@gmail.com) Ceylon Biscuits Bangladesh (Pvt.) Ltd (Munchee) has invested over US $ 3 million to open their first overseas factory in Bangladesh situated 35 km out ...

Time to cement Indo-Lanka ties

Tuesday, 21st October 2014 By Muralidhar Rao After the successful culmination of the war fought over three decades with the LTTE, Sri Lanka today has started enjoying peace and normalcy. This is reflected in almost eve ...

MEDIA STATEMENT

The Ministry of External Affairs is surprised at some of the recent statements on the outcome of the case filed by the LTTE in 2011 at the General Court of the European Union in which the Council of the European Union was the defendant supported by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the European Commission as interveners. These statements by interested parties are based on an inaccurate premise.

The Ministry of External Affairs wishes to state that from the outset of the case being filed, legal advice and expert opinion were sought from within the European Union system and specialist European lawyers. Accordingly, the Government of Sri Lanka took action in the most effective manner available, by providing material of a substantive nature to the defendant and the interveners on a regular basis. This was in accordance with Sri Lanka being a non-member state of the European Union and having therefore to meet special conditions, contrary to the national interest of Sri Lanka, in order to be allowed to intervene itself in cases before the General Court of the European Union.

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Sri Lanka the ‘STAR PERFORMER’ in SAARC

Tuesday, 21st October 2014 This has been revealed at the SAARC Development Goals (SDGs) progress report. Bangladesh launched it on Sunday, ahead of the next months’ SAARC summit in Kathmandu. Presenting the report, ...

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