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Sri
Lanka
will be
developed
using
technology
and new
knowledge,
and the
Government
has a
viable
plan.
“We will
surprise
the
world
with our
swift
march
towards
development,”
said
President
Mahinda
Rajapaksa
addressing
the
annual
National
Convention
of the
SLFP at
the
Khettarama
Stadium
yesterday
(15).
He
also
said the
first
oil well
will
bear
results
in 2010
and Sir
Lanka
could
proudly
use its
own fuel
for
consumption.
The
President
noted as
the
country
united
for the
defeat
of the
LTTE, in
development
too we
should
work
together
irrespective
of our
differences.
There
is no
development
when
there is
no
peace.
Likewise
there is
no peace
when
there is
no
development,
he said.
President
Rajapaksa
further
said
that
fraud
and
corruption
will be
defeated
as the
Government
defeated
terrorism.
The
President
also
stressed
that he
was not
a leader
who was
prepared
to
surrender
to what
the
international
community
wanted
to
plunder
but was
ready to
offer
anything
to the
people
of his
country
to
uplift
the
nation.
The
President
stressed
that the
SLFP was
a party
that had
put the
nation
before
itself
and
added
that the
membership
with
their
exemplary
behaviour
also had
ushered
a new
political
culture
of
democracy
and
cohesiveness
sans
discrimination
of
opposing
members.
“Our
party
has
created
a free
nation
for
generations
to live
without
fear”,
he
stressed.
During
the
Convention
five
resolutions
were
presented
for the
conventions
approval
by
senior
members
of the
SLFP
such as
Political
Resolution,
War
Heroes
Felicitation
Resolution,
Economic
Resolution,
National
Reconciliation
Resolution
and
International
Affairs
Resolution.
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