05/09/2002 - Daily News
India-Lanka bridge only if GDP growth registers 6-8%
(by Chandani Jayatilleke)
Government sources said that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Science and Technology Minister Milinda Moragoda are the prime movers of the project as they see it as the best way to develop the north and the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka and wean the people of the north away from separatist terrorism…
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08/09/2002 - Sunday Times
Invest now, benefits later plea - Marshall-type recovery plan for the country under preparation
The Sri Lankan government wants foreign donors and investors to invest now instead of waiting for permanent peace and is working on a Marshall-type recovery plan for the country…“In the next few months we are putting together a kind of Marshall Plan for development not only in the north and the east – but the entire country”, said Moragoda…
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09/09/2002 - Daily News
Peace talks : GL, Milinda to brief US investors
The high profile Investors’ Forum in New York on September 18…will get a first-hand briefing on the Thailand peace talks…Minister…Milinda Moragoda…will fly directly form Bangkok to New York on September 19 to give the investors a first hand account…
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16/09/2002 - Daily News
JETRO to help Lankan IT firms – Software outsourcing deals from Japan
Japanese Parliamentary delegation headed by Kenji Manabe who was on a fact finding mission with regard to IT industry and IT education in Sri Lanka met Minister…Sri Lankan IT firms are in for an excellent opportunity to vie for contracts for software outsourcing from Japanese companies…
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16/09/2002 - The Asian Wall Street Journal
Sri Lanka’s Chance for Peace
(by Milinda Moragoda)
Sri Lanka has been struggling with civil strife since 1983, largely without help from the rest of the world. Two events last year dramatically changed the country’s situation: the attack on the United States on Sept. 11 and the election of a new government in Sri Lanka in October…
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16/09/2002 - Daily News
Preliminary round of peace talks begins today
(by Rodney Martimesz in Pattaya, Thailand)
It is all systems go for today’s preliminary round of peace talks between the Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam… Minister Moragoda said the initial talks would be confined to fixing the agenda for the next round of talks, tentatively scheduled for October…
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19/09/2002 - Daily Mirror
Tigers shelve Eelam call – Milinda and Hakeem to meet Prabhakaran in mid October
(by Keith Noyahr reporting from Sattahip)
LTTE chief negotiator Anton Balasingham yesterday gave a strong assurance that the organisation was fully committed to the current peace process and declared a separate state was irrelevant provided substantial autonomy was granted to the North East region…
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29/09/2002 - Daily Mirror
PM’s peace initiatives commended
…Undersecretary of State…Peter Hain,…met…Minister…Moragoda outlined the issues addressed during the peace talks…briefed Hain, regarding the proposal to convene a high-level donor conference...
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05/10/2002 - Daily Mirror
Time to work as a nation – Milinda tells launch of The Management Club at Mt. Lavinia Hotel
(by Yohan Perera)
Economic reforms,… Minister Milinda Moragoda… said that the government has a vision and a plan for… peace and economic development,… building up a vision and dreams is easy but making them into reality is a challenge and stressed the importance of hard work, management and team building to fulfill them…
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07/10/2002 - The Island
Milinda consoles protesting relatives of abducted soldiers
(by Sumadhu Weerawarne)
Minister Milinda Moragoda was in Trincomalee… met the relatives and members of the general community and community leaders assured that the government was doing everything possible to obtain the release of the soldiers…
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