29.12.2007
Prime
Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayaka asserted that the country
can anticipate to dedicate and celebrate 2008 as the year
in which terrorists will be comprehensively defeated and
totally eliminated.
The Prime Minister, addressing the National New Inventors'
Presidential Awards 2007, organized by the Sri Lanka New
Inventors Commission in collaboration with the Enterprise
Development Ministry at the Presidential Secretariat yesteday
said that terrorists who are now confined only to a limited
area are destined to be totally wiped out in the coming
year.
He
added that the Government had shifted its policies from
the norm to develop the village instead of limiting development
only to the Western Province. He said that it was in this
context that the indigenous inventor is a great and invaluable
asset to the country.
Enterprise
Development Minister, Mano Wijeratne, Education Minister
Susil Premajayanth, and Secretay, Enterprise Development
Ministry, Thosapala Hewage also addressed the gathering.
Courtesy
- Government Information