24/11/2002 - Sunday Island
India to skip Oslo confab
(by Sumadhu Weerawarne)
The Indian government making a statement in the aftermath of the visit of two Sri Lankan ministers expressed ‘support for the process in Sri Lanka”…Minister…Milinda Moragoda…in the context of the ongoing process of close consultation…met External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha…
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26/11/2002 - Daily News
Oslo demonstrates support for Lanka – Clare Short
UK's International Development Secretary Clare Short yesterday said the Oslo support conference demonstrates UK and international support for the peace process in Sri Lanka…"We have welcomed the positive and constructive progress of the peace talks…Short met… Moragoda (twice) in London this year....
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27/11/2002 - Daily News
Ministers Meet
Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and Economic Reform, Science and Technology Minister Milinda Moragoda held talks in New Delhi last week. Moragoda’s trip was in line with a pact between Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Indian Premier Atal Behari Vajpayee to keep Sri Lanka’s largest neighbour informed about the peace process...
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27/11/2002 - Daily News
Moragoda wants to establish cyber cafes in villages
Minister for Economic Reforms, Science and Technologies Milinda Moragoda has expressed his desire to establish communication centres and cyber cafes in villages…Attention was made to obtain Indian support to Sri Lanka in popularising information technology in state ruling, industries, enterprise development and education...
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27/11/2002 - Daily Mirror
India agrees to help Govt. to make E-Sri Lanka a reality
Minister Milinda Moragoda, Minister for… Technology as a special representative of Sri Lanka Government met Minister Pramod Mahajan, Minister for Information Technology… at New Delhi recently…The two ministers agreed to exchange preparatory groups in order to sign a treaty to promote the experience of both the countries in computer and information communication sector…
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28/11/2002 - The Island
Govt. doesn’t accept LTTE courts – Moragoda
(by Himangi Jayasundere)
...“Ultimately we have to build one legal system”, Moragoda said, answering a question from the audience following the Lalith Athulathmudali memorial lecture at which he delivered a lecture on “Sri Lanka-Which Way for the Future”…“In uniting we have to come to one system"...
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29/11/2002 - Daily News
Prime Minister briefs President on Oslo
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, accompanied by…Milinda Moragoda, discussed a range of issues related to the peace process with President Kumaratunga, including the better implementation of the Ceasefire Agreement, the question of LTTE law courts and police stations in the North-East, extortion, recruitment of child soldiers and the future course of...
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29/11/2002 - Daily News
Lalith Athulathmudali was a man of many talents – Minister Moragoda
(by Asanga Warnakulasuriya)
...Lalith Athulathmudali…educated at Oxford...absorbed the best that western cultures had to offer…but he never substituted those cultures for his own, which always remained that of a Sri Lankan and a Buddhist…
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01/12/2002 - Sunday Times
Govt., PA in race to woo New Delhi
(by Harinda Vidanage)
Government negotiator Milinda Moragoda flew to New Delhi to brief Indian leaders on the Oslo meeting and the peace talks…After weeks of confusion and conflicting reports, India sat on the fence of the Oslo meeting, being ceremonially represented by the first secretary of its mission in Norway, while other countries sent top-level delegations...
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01/12/2002 – Sunday Observer
Oslo parley to weigh three vital issues
(by S. Selvakumar)
...third round of peace talks to begin in the Norwegian capital, Oslo , tomorrow...delegation…will be headed by Ministers, Professor G.L. Peiris, Milinda Morgoda…Mr. Moragoda was expected to brief Indian leaders in New Delhi yesterday before flying to Oslo…
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