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Friday, June 13, 2008 - 8.36 GMT |
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Support reconstruction in Sri Lanka – Dr.
Liam Fox |
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The international community should help Sri
Lanka in its reconstruction efforts
following the clearance of the LTTE from the
East and democratic elections there, said
British Shadow Defence Secretary Dr . Liam
Fox at the Sri Lanka theme night hosted by
the Carlton Club, an affiliate of the
Conservative Party in the UK.
Dr. Fox also said that recent events in the
East of Sri Lanka has given the government a
great historic opportunity and challenge to
demonstrate its willingness to undertake
reconstruction as an opportunity on the
basis not of ethnicity but on the basis that
every citizen was being afforded the same
possibilities.
He regretted that the Agreement he forged to
diminish political impediments to
developments in Sri Lanka 12 years ago as
British Foreign Office Minister failed due
to the very personality politics it tried to
avert.
Foreign Minister Rohita Bogollagama delived
a lecture on “A people’s mandate for
democracy over terrorism in the East of Sri
Lanka” at the same event.
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