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The MCC is not just any ordinary agreement. It is an agreement that is signed between 2 Governments, passing 10 land registries to a newly created company called MCC Sri Lanka Pvt Ltd. So a government to government agreement creates..

A government with a will to defend the nation combined with the heroic efforts of Sri Lanka’s national army reunited every inch of land under one national flag on 19 May 2009. The LTTE held a shrinking area of 100..

(Courtesy of the Asian Tribune) The U.S. State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells officially described Sri Lanka a “real estate” in the Indo-Pacific region when she addressed the foreign media in the Department’s Foreign Media Center in Washington Friday,..

Mahinda Gunasekera The UN and UNHRC experts tend to advocate a strict form of retributive justice in the case of Sri Lanka with the intent of punishing her apparently misled by the lies and propaganda of the well funded Tamil..

By K. Ratnayake (Courtesy of https://www.wsws.org) US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice G. Wells delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to President Gotabhaya Rajapakse during a one-day trip to Sri Lanka last..

By Prof. Chandre Dharmawardana (Courtesy of The Island) The so-called  Millenium Challenge Compact (MCC)  of the USA  proposes to grant nearly half a billion dollars to Sri Lanka’s development. Sri Lanka has already received over 2.5 billion in Chinese aid, and this..

His task will be tell the UNHRC session in February-March 2020 what Sri Lanka can and cannot do in the matter of accountability for alleged war crimes. Veteran Sunday Island columnist, C.A.Chandraprema, has been appointed as Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative at..

On 4th March 2011, the Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry responded to the adopting of Resolution (S. Res 84) by US Senate. What is poignant about US Resolution and Sri Lanka’s response is the manner that the groundwork had been laid..

By Shamindra Ferdinando (Courtesy of The Island) Oct 2015 Geneva Resolution based on pack of lies Apropos Midweek piece ‘What will be Prez Gotabaya’s Geneva policy’ published in the January 15, 2020, edition of The Island, Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera has sent us the..

(courtesy of The Island) Amidst the flurry of diplomatic activity that characterized the past week, the visit of Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov from 13th-14th January had significance for its resonance both locally and regionally. From Colombo Minister Lavrov went..