Keeping the faith

My primary strategy was to set the political direction for the humanitarian operation, set time targets, pick the right people for the job at hand, provide the necessary funding and other requisites to the Armed Forces - and above all, to have confidence in their ability to eradicate this menace. I also believe in monitoring the progress of operations on a regular basis. I knew I could eradicate terrorism from our soil and create a peaceful environment for our people.

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Restoring long-term peace and stability

We must be conscious that we live in a world beset by global challenges that dwarf the adversities that we care called upon to encounter within our shores. Later this month, I will attend the World Climate Conference in Denmark - a forum that has great significance for the fate of the world as we know it. We are also trying to recover from a global economic downturn that, thankfully, we have been spared of suffering the worst effects. Fighting poverty, disease, addressing global governance issues and empowerment of marginalized and vulnerable groups are macro-level issues that we have to deal with.

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The contender and 13 plus

Sarath Fonseka, the would be Presidential candidate has and many other things besides, savoury and unsavoury, including a penchant for whining of late, has said it. He said ‘it’ to Satarupa Bhattacharjya of ‘Outlook India’. ‘It’ is of course India’s little play-thing vis-…-vis Sri Lanka: the 13th Amendment.

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