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Moving Forward: An Assessment of Ongoing Initiatives, A Listing of Productive Possibilities |
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Text of a lecture by Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
Adviser on Reconciliation to HE the President
Given at the panel discussion on Reconciliation arranged by
The Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies' Reconciliation and Development for Peace Section
December 15th 2011
We must love one another or die
Auden’s reminder of the need for togetherness to avoid annihilation, which he expressed in ‘September 1939’, evoking the horrors of the war that caused such destruction in Europe, is of particular significance in Sri Lanka today. We have got over the horrors of the terrorism that plagued us for two decades and more. We have also got now to get over the bitterness and suspicion that prompted that terrorism.
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Speech at the Committee Stage of the Budget Debate 2011 |
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On the votes of the Ministry of National Languages and Social Integrations
By Prof Rajiva Wijesinha,MP, Adviser on Reconciliation to HE the President
December 9th 2011
I am grateful, Mr Speaker, for this opportunity to support the budget allocation and the work of the Ministry of National Languages and Social Integration amongst others. In fact my one complaint is that not enough has been given for the work of this extremely important Ministry. In his budget speech the President made clear the seminal contribution to national development of the activities associated with this Ministry, and I can only hope that its work does not suffer from a shortage of resources.
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Welcome Speech of the Secretary General of the Liberal Party, Kamal Nissanka |
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At the 25th Anniversary celebrations of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka,January 20th 2012
We should begin this 25th anniversary celebration of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka with a moment of silence in memory of the Founder of the Party, Chanaka Amaratunga.
Our Chief Guest, Mrs Srima Dissanayake, Mrs Swarna Amaratunge, President of the Party, and all our distinguished participants and members of the Party, I am honoured to welcome you today to this seminar. Mrs Dissanayake is no stranger to the Liberal Party, for when she stood for election as President of Sri Lanka, in 1994, it was on a manifesto that Dr Amaratunga had drafted for her late husband. Gamini Dissanayake was recognized by our Founder as the best hope for Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka, and his death was a tragedy from which it took the country a long time to recover, and which his party is still struggling to overcome. Unfortunately in Sri Lanka we tend to forget the past, or rather we dwell on what causes dissension and harm, and learn nothing from the examples of statesmen such as Gamini Dissanayake.
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LAKBIMA-29TH JANUARY 2012 |
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Schwizer Radio und Fernsehen in Conversation with Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha MP, Advisor on Reconciliation to the President. |
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