24.9.2008
Colombo News Desk

Minister Maithripala Sirisena says the government programme to defeat the LTTE is in progress successfully.

He stressed that speculations spread by some pro-LTTE organisations could not stopped this procedure. He pointed out that the government’s efforts to defeat terrorism unleashed by the LTTE have won a broad international support. All arrangements have been made to facilitate persons displaced due to ongoing humanitarian operations in the north, a situation which is inevitable in a war.

Pro-LTTE organisations have produced inaccurate statistics on the displacement of persons.

Making a special statement in parliament on Tuesday , Minister Maithripala Sirisena said the government will produce accurate detail list on displaced persons. He made this statement in reply to a question raised by MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

Minister A.H.M. Fowzie requested the opposition not to gain petty political advantages by highlighting the issue of lowered fuel prices in the global market.

He said fuel prices in the local market were not increased when the prices of fuel in the world market were increased in the last few months. Therefore, the government incurred a heavy loss during the period from January to May. Opposition leader Ranil Wickremasinghe and MP Joseph Michael Perera urged that the public should be given the advantage of lowered fuel prices in the global market.

MP Wimal Weerawansa who made a special statement at the opening of the sitting pointed out several practical problems in the circular issued pertaining to the admission of children to grade one in schools.