By Lynn Ockersz

The All Party Representatives Committee (APRC) deliberations are continuing and agreement has been reached among the 14 parties in the process on 90 percent of the substance in an emerging consensual agreement on power devolution within a unitary state framework, APRC chief and Science and Technology Minister Prof. Tissa Vitarana said. However, he cautioned that the country should await the outcome of the discussions with ‘patience’ and said that no specific time frame could be given for concluding the APRC process.

by K. Godage
Former Ambassador

Hillary Clinton has made a chilling statement that she would destroy Iran if she becomes President. In all honesty I do hope, not just for the sake of Iran (and our world itself) this woman who appears to be suffering from hallucinations, would not make it beyond the Democratic Convention. However that maybe, her statement is most revealing. For whose sake has she made this statement? Is it that Iran poses a threat to US security? No most definitely not! It is because Israel perceives a threat to her security from Iran.

The significance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad’s Sri Lankan visit is not purely economic, though Sri Lanka’s economy is bound to gain a tremendous boost from Iran’s benevolence.