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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has congratulated Saudi Arabia on its Saudi Green and Middle East Green initiatives and called for regional cooperation to tackle the environmental challenges facing Saudi Arabia and the wider region.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced at the end of March the Saudi Green and Middle East Green initiatives, which aim to reduce carbon emissions in the region by 60 percent and plant 50 billion trees in the world’s biggest afforestation project.
“Sri Lanka would keenly follow the ambitious projects designed to reduce carbon emissions in the region by 60 percent and the initiatives (aimed at preserving) marine and coastal environments, the latter being much closer to our heart as an island nation,” the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday, as it expressed the country’s willingness to cooperate with the Kingdom on climate issues.
India Stays Out of China Driven South Asian Meet on COVID Containment South Asian Foreign Affairs meet.
COLOMBO: India and its allies, Bhutan and the Maldives, did not participate in a video conference of the Foreign Ministers of South Asian countries and China on the containment of the raging COVID-19 pandemic in the region.
This was apparently due to the participation of China and its leading role in organizing the event.
Those who participated in the conference held on Tuesday, were the State Councilor Wang Yi (China), Dinesh Gunawardena (Si Lanka), Mirwais Nab (Afghanistan), A.K Abdul Memon (Bangladesh), Pradeep Kumar Gyawali (Nepal) and Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi (Pakistan).
Posted on January 23rd, 2021
H. L. D. Mahindapala
In continuing last week’s article on how lies manufactured and
manipulated by charismatic leaders and mediocre theorists can distort the
perceptions of the masses and lead societies to violence I must make a
brief diversion, before I come to the local context – my main purpose
to focus on how Donald Trump is leaving White House as the most dangerous
President that ever walked out of it. He is leaving America under the darkest
cloud that threatens to come down not in dismal rain but in ghastly
blood. He left the White House saying: Goodbye, we love you, we’ll be back in