The political discourse Ape Gamana for UPFA leaders and MPs got underway at the Diyatalawa Defence Academy on Saturday. Here President Mahinda
Rajapaksa with the UPFA leaders and MPs after the successful conclusion of the programme yesterday. Picture by Sudath Silva

Geneva confab:

SL’s post war progress hailed in many quarters

A number of representatives at the 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) had praised the progress achieved by Sri Lanka in all sectors, within the two and a half years since the conflict ended, head of the Sri Lankan delegation, President’s Special Envoy for Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said .

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‘Our Journey’ in Diyatalawa highly successful

The ‘Our Journey’ Apey Gamana residential workshop for United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) parliamentarians and constituent party leaders which commenced on Saturday under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa continued for the second day at the Diyatalawa Military Academy yesterday.

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‘Opposition Leader trying to mislead farmers’

Price fluctuation of vegetables is natural during a certain period of the year although the Opposition leader is trying to get political mileage using even the tomato prices, which is regrettable, Matale district Parliamentarian Lakshman Wasantha Perera said. “While the people are enjoying the fruits of the Divi Neguma programme, some parties are launching campaigns to hoodwink vegetable farmers by saying that tomato prices have dropped drastically,” he told the Daily News yesterday.

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GL briefs Botswana Foreign Minister:

Inclusivity, a core element of reconciliation in SL

There is a time, a place and a method for intervention by the Human Rights Council in the affairs of individual states. What is distressing about the current initiative in respect of Sri Lanka is its highly selective and discriminating character, External Affairs Minister Professor G L Peiris said in Botswana’s capital, Gabarone on Friday.

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