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Sri Lanka military seeks funds from Sinhala Diaspora
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 9 May 2008 07:47:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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COLOMBO: In the run-up to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s state visit to Sri Lanka last month, the Mahinda Rajapaksa government found itself in a cleft stick.
The US had expressed concern over growing ties between Sri Lanka and Iran, particularly because of a report on a secret military dimension. While Sri Lanka needed Iran s friendship to meet its energy needs, it could not develop relations with Iran at the expense of ties with the US, whose help it needs to quash the Tamil Tiger rebels international network.
Instead of chickening out of a difficult situation, Rajapaksa and his team took on the challenge and pulled off a remarkable balancing act, diplomatic sources told this website s newspaper. A senior minister with influence in Washington met top US political leaders across the political divide, and allayed their fears about a military dimension. The Sri Lankans categorically denied a report that Brig. Gen. Quassem Suleimani, Director General of Iran s Qods Force, which was involved in covert operations against Israel, had visited Colombo.
It is learnt there was indeed a small but vocal minority in the Sri Lankan hierarchy which wanted military cooperation with Iran, but its proposals were rejected by Rajapaksa, who was keen on accommodating US security concerns. Luckily, Iran too was looking at Sri Lanka from an economic standpoint, rather than a military one.
The Sri Lanka-Iran Joint Statement, issued on April 29 at the end of Ahmadinejad s two-day visit, gushed about the exponential growth in Sri Lanka-Iran economic ties, but also referred to the sensitive nuclear issue of critical importance to Iran and the US. What the statement said did not exactly meet the US demand, but the formulation was technically unexceptionable.
The statement said that Art. IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, on the right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, should be applied in a non-discriminatory manner. It reiterated adherence to Art. I and II, which banned nuclear proliferation. The US had demanded that Iran go by UN Security Council resolutions on its nuclear activities. But the Lanka-Iran statement maintained that the competent authority in the field was the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
However, in response to US/Israeli sensitivities, the statement refrained from reiterating a proposal made in an earlier Joint Statement (made on Nov. 29, 2007), that there be a Middle East Nuclear Free Zone. The April 29 statement only called for universal nuclear disarmament.
The negotiations were tough, but there was a lot of give and take, which shows that the only way to deal with Iran is to engage it constructively and not confront it, a senior Sri Lankan negotiator told this website s newspaper.
Iran is a country with an ancient civilization. If it is treated with due respect, the world will see a win-win situation, he added. (Newindpress) |
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 9 May 2008 07:48:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ah Thambi,
Will see...U better keep some word to tell in the final stage...dont vomit all here..otherwise you dont have any words to tell when the PEELAM going to setup.... |
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Article: Sri Lanka military seeks funds from Sinhala Diaspora
Friday, 9 May 2008 - 9:06 AM SL Time it is hilarious,,
the old saying comes to my mind,,
'maamiyar udachcha mankudam ,marumakal udachcha ponkudam.'
the sinhalam seems to be thinking: if the tamil diaspora collect money for war ravaged north and east, it is for the ltte and the Tamil Diaspora should also be criminalized along with the ltte under the terrorism banner.
if the sinhala criminal thugs like nanayakan comes to UK to collect money from their own people using the kappam house (embassy) as a base, it is a Nobel act!
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9 May 2008 08:01:15 GMT Report for Abuse
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if the sinhala criminal thugs like nanayakan comes to UK to collect money from their own people using the kappam house (embassy) as a base, it is a Nobel act!
hmm i know babe its tough being a barbaric terrorist stooge isn't it! |
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The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau says it has decided to temporarily suspend sending Sri Lankans to Lebanon due to the prevailing internal conflict situation in that country.
Lebanon is not giving enuf money to singlecellese maids & hence they want to send every maid only to Saudi & Iran for servicing !
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9 May 2008 08:03:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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When r we going to see the greate fight back,man this becoming very one sided and pretty boring!!
Army captured Adampan town this morning and 15 LTTE cadres and two soldiers have been killed in the battle, the Defence Ministry said. |
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9 May 2008 08:04:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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Rasak,
i know babe its tough
When the going gets tough, only the tough gets going.
I Know lotta singlecellese diaspora will runaway from LNP if Mr Brown scares them with these kinda articles of military begging for funds from them ! |
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Lebanon is not giving enuf money to singlecellese maids & hence they want to send every maid only to Saudi & Iran for servicing !
i guess thats why cannibal WETAMIL women r choosing dubai
DUBAI A Sri Lankan woman committed suicide at the Dubai International Airport recently by hanging herself.
Her young children, who are in shock, are now waiting anxiously for the remains of their mother to reach them.
Kala Sangarapillai, 30, who was working as a housemaid in Kuwait and was on her way to Sri Lanka via Dubai to see her family when she allegedly hanged herself in the ladies restroom at the Dubai airport three weeks back.
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if the sinhala criminal thugs like nanayakan comes to UK to collect money from their own people using the kappam house (embassy) as a base, it is a Nobel act!
Of course it is!!The LLTE and all its supporters are a bunch of no good, blood thirsty, greedy terrorists...
LLTE= Liberation Leeches of Tamil eelam
Edited By - moby - 9 May 2008 08:13:47 GMT |
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When the going gets tough, only the tough gets going.
not for the barberic WETAMIL cannibals though, they keep on loosing!
Army captured Adampan town this morning and 15 LTTE cadres and two soldiers have been killed in the battle |
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