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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 05.10 GMT |
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Government’s priority, IDP humanitarian
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The Government attaches the highest
importance to the humanitarian needs of
displaced persons and civilians in the areas
affected by the conflict, said Foreign
Minister Rohitha Bogollagama at the National
Press Club in Canberra yesterday (14).
“In order to ensure effective adequate and
safe delivery of humanitarian supplies, the
Government has been working closely with UN
agencies, ICRC as well as a number of local
and international NGOs,” he added.
While the Eastern Province has been
successfully cleared of the LTTE, the Sri
Lanka Government is also pursuing a similar
policy in the Northern Province, said the
Minister.
Speaking further, he said:
“The Government’s sincere objective is to
enable the people of the North to enjoy the
benefits of the democratic process and to
ensure that political freedom and the fruits
of economic and social development that the
people of the Eastern Province are now
beginning to benefit from, can be
experienced and enjoyed by the people in the
North of Sri Lanka as well. And we firmly
believe that such reinvigoration of the
democratic process in the North and the East
can lead towards a lasting political
solution to issues of concern to all
citizens of Sri Lanka and forsecuring
fundamental rights and preserving and
protecting the multi-religious,
multi-ethnic, and multi-cultural fabric of
the Sri Lankan society.”
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