PRESIDENTT RAJAPAKSA OF SRI LANKA ADDRESSES THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT THE UNITED NATIONS
Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of Sri Lanka, addresses the 61st session of the General Assembly at the United Nations on September 20,2006 in New York. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)
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MALE, Maldives, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, ousted this week, faced arrest Thursday, his former foreign minister told the Wall Street Journal.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- India's foreign minister urged Sri Lanka to continue with reconciliation efforts started at the end of the island nation's brutal 30-year conflict with Tamil separatists.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan government has directed Web sites carrying news about the country to register, saying some sites have been discrediting the government.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A decision by the Sri Lankan president to end an emergency law in place since the 1970s is welcome news that must be enforced, the U.S. State Department said.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Washington announced it was sending a top diplomat to Sri Lanka after the country's president said he was lifting emergency laws in place since 1979.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Thursday lifted emergency laws that were imposed in 1983 at the start of the Tamil Tiger rebellion.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 3 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government, bowing to worker protests, withdrew its private sector pension plan proposal, a spokesman said.
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Bad weather forced Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to cancel his visit to areas hit by severe flooding that killed 18 people and displaced 200,000.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Gen. Sarath Fonseka, former head of the Sri Lankan Army and a candidate for president, was convicted Friday of engaging in politics in uniform.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, July 10 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa convinced a member of his Cabinet Saturday to end a hunger strike over U.N. allegations of human rights violations.
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