Government launching massive nation-building drive
 

IT gives me great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the Government and people of Sri Lanka to the Sri Lanka Development Forum 2005. This is the first time after many long years that the Development Forum is being held in Sri Lanka. This forum has many predecessors. We met many times in Paris and in June 2003 we met at a special session in Tokyo.

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Symbiotic link between peace and development - Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala
 

IN his presentation to the Sri Lanka Development Forum on May 17 Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala said, "there is a complex symbiotic link between peace and development". The Secretary General of Sri Lanka's Peace Secretariat said, "the peace process in Sri Lanka has been a broad continuum, it has moved from chapter to chapter and there were lessons to be learnt from each chapter". He said "the peace process and peace negotiations are not one and the same. Negotiation is only one component of the peace process."

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