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Yako Veessiyekuta Jathaka una Apathaya....thoge Ratakata palyan.

. President Mahinda Rajapaksa will pay an official visit to Cuba today and tomorrow. An MoU will be signed between Sri Lanka and Cuba during the President s visit, Mass Media and Information Minister and Cabinet Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said. He said it will be signed between the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies of Sri Lanka and Raul Roa Garcia Institute of International Relations of Cuba.

. Former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka yesterday said in Colombo that he was prepared to go back to prison, if that was the price that had to be paid to topple the corrupt and dictatorial Mahinda Rajapaksa government.

Addressing the first press conference since his release from jail on May 21, Fonseka told the local and foreign media at the Taj Samudra in Colombo, that he would not join the Rajapaksa regime, as speculated, since it included a group of persons imbibed with corruption and lawlessness resulting from long years in politics.

Speaking with remarkable composure, in comparison to the brash style associated with his pre-prison days, Gen. Fonseka said that even endless hours of pirith and bana preaching could not change the hearts and minds of the powers that be, since they had been engaged in dirty politics for far too long.

. On the issue of being stripped of all army ranks and retirement benefits, following his conviction by a Court Martial in the Hicorp case, Fonseka said that he was still the people s General and they would some day restore him to his legitimate and rightful position.

The Rajapaksas had tried to destroy him by framing false charges, but he had come back stronger and more determined to create a peaceful and prosperous society for all communities which was his objective in entering politics after serving the country loyally on the battle field, Gen. Fonseka said.