Fullest cooperation to ensure regional security: Vietnam pledges to stand by SL
Vietnam will always stand by Sri Lanka in the international arena, stated Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang during his bilateral discussion with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday.
He said Vietnam will always extend its assistance to Sri Lanka in the UN Assemblies, South-South corporation, Colombo Plan and any other international event.
He pledged Vietnam’s fullest cooperation to Sri Lanka to ensure regional security and elimination of terrorism. He appreciated President Rajapaksa for the first telephone call he had made to the then Vietnamese President to inform of the elimination of terrorism in Sri Lanka in 2009.
Vietnam highly values the high level political relationship that exists between the two countries, the Vietnamese President stressed. He pledged to provide Sri Lanka with assistance in defence, defence training, fisheries, petroleum sector, disaster management, and search and rescue missions. Vietnamese multi-national corporations will be encouraged to invest in Sri Lanka, he noted.
Appreciating the Vietnamese President’s visit, the first-ever state visit by a Vietnamese leader to Sri Lanka, President Rajapaksa emphasized the close relations between the two countries which have “matured and strengthened on shared values and historical ties”.
He expressed his gratitude to the government of Vietnam for the support and co-operation extended to crackdown on illegal activities carried out by the LTTE in the East Asia Region.
“Although we have militarily defeated the LTTE, the sophisticated propaganda machinery supported by some INGOs, operating to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka is of great concern to us. I look forward to your consistent support in the regional and multilateral fora to counter such negative effects,” he said.
“Sri Lanka desires to strengthen defence cooperation between the two countries in fighting against the common menace of terrorism. In this context, the conclusion of the Defence Co-operation Agreement between our two countries during this visit would enable to initiate measures for practical cooperation,” he added.
Elaborating on trade and investment, President Rajapaksa said Sri Lanka seeks to engage with Vietnam to create a win-win situation for both countries, capitalizing on mutual advantages. He invited the Vietnamese business community to participate in the Expo 2012 Trade Exhibition in March next year.
Congratulating the Vietnamese President on the success of the 11th Congress of the Communist Party, President Rajapaksa invited the Vietnam Communist Party to establish links with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He invited Vietnamese Communist youths to link up with the Sri Lankan youths to further enhance the mutual understanding between the two nations. Courtesy PRIU
Courtesy: Daily News
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THE SCREW TIGHTENS.
Good on you, Demala, we can get refuge in Vietnam while you have Eelam.
These tamils think they’re as elephents while being checken shits of west.!
You just can wait forever with Black Moon till the west make happen your dream..!
To the Dharaneeshwara Kalyani:
Dear Excellency,
SRI LANKA’S high commissioner to Australia, former admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, should be investigated for war crimes, a brief before the Australian Federal Police says.
The submission, from the International Commission of Jurists’ Australian section, has compiled what a source has told the Herald is direct and credible evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Sri Lanka Navy.
There are witnesses – Sri Lankans now living in Australia – who can attest to the alleged crimes, the source said.
The then Admiral Samarasinghe was commander of the navy’s eastern and then northern areas, as well as naval chief of staff, in the final years of the bloody civil war against the separatist terrorist group, the Tamil Tigers.
No worries mate.
This admiral can become a chicken admiral like the chicken brigadier in New York and claim diplomatic immunity.
Will SL’s UN guy, PK, who is an Australian Citizen set his foot on Australian soil for the CHOGM meeting?
The chances are he will be the first GOSL official arrested and charged for war crimes, anywhere in the World.
The Blue Brothers and the citizens of Sri Lanka are best off sticking to the brain dead Duminda Silva’s drug filled lands in Sri Lanka.
The ex-Army guys who are in Korea cleaning toilets are being targetted as well.
Looks like just some mad guy is writting posts here in different names, and replying to his own posts like Mr. Bean. I may call him Demala Frederickotipitiyage.
He must be in a dreamland. Keep dreaming. The same 3-in-1 previously said (or dreamt) that the Hon. President Rajapaksha will be arrested in US during UN meeting last few weeks. This 3-in-1 was itching his rotten balls thinking it’ll happen now, and now, and now. Didn’t happen. What a chicken poo eater!
He is running his parrellel news channel in OnLanka here and posting world news totally unrelated to the story. What an ideot. He must start his own blog site to publish his rubbish rather than wasting time of the OnLanka readers on unrelated matters and utter his mantha Genocide, Genocide, Genocide etc etc etc.
He is the real chicken because he is the one who is hiding in the west and screaming from under the bed. Otherwise come to Sri lanka and make your allegations at a court here in Sri Lanka if you are really itchy about Sri lanka.
Bloody chicken you are pissing in your own pants, being scared to real Sri Lankans. Aren’t you scared that you will be arrested for war crimes and terrorism if you come back to Sri Lanka? Don’t worry Mr. terrorist, we will rehabilitate you and teach some trades and release you back to the society so you don’t have to clean toilets of Westeners.
Now the same 3-in-1 chicken poo eater is itching his same rotten balls until something happens during CHOGM meeting. Keep dreaming.
Typical Sri Lankan blog from Ranjith.
I support King Duminda;
I don’t support chicken brigadiers and chicken admirals.
I abhor name calling.
Some think Guru is really an LTTE diaspora Tamil who writes under pseudonym Sinhala names. Some think he is JVP. Will Guru explain himself?