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| India for lasting political solution in Tamil areas: Khurshid |
| 2013-10-09 |
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India will do everything possible to work with the Government of Sri Lanka to enable a lasting political solution, said Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid here on Tuesday.
After meetings with Sri Lankan leaders across the political spectrum, Mr. Khurshid said India was committed to pursuing the full implementation of the 13th Amendment.
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| Commonwealth chief is stooge of Sri Lanka regime – Canadian envoy |
| 2013-10-09 |
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Canada has launched a direct assault on the authority of the Commonwealth secretary general, attacking him as a stooge for a Sri Lankan regime it accuses of serious human rights abuses.
On Tuesday Hugh Segal, Canada's special envoy to the Commonwealth, accused Kamalesh Sharma of "acting as a shill [a stooge] for the Sri Lankan leadership, defending their every mistake".
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| Sharma respects Harper’s stand |
| 2013-10-09 |
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Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma says he has been formally informed that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not be attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka next month and he respects that decision.
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| Lanka says Canada isolated |
| 2013-10-09 |
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The Government today said that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is isolated in his decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka.
External Affairs Minister Professor G.L Peiris said that the Canadian Prime Ministers absence will not have a negative impact on the summit.
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| India to press for land, police powers |
| 2013-10-09 |
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Indian External Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid, has told a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) delegation that India will continue to discuss unresolved issues such as land and police powers for the provincial administrations, with the Sri Lankan Government.
Khurshid met the TNA delegation comprising R. Sampanthan, M.A. Sumanthiran, Suresh Premachandran and Selvam Adaikalanathan at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel yesterday, where the Indian minister congratulated the Alliance over its victory at the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) pol
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| Harper's Commonwealth Boycott: PM Threatens To Turn Off Funding Tap Over Sri Lanka Abuses |
| 2013-10-08 |
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has used the platform of one international leaders' summit to fire a torpedo into the hull of another.
Harper stepped to the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering on this idyllic Indonesian tourist island Monday to formally confirm he'll boycott next month's Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka.
Perhaps more significantly, Harper threatened that Canada could cut the purse strings to the 64-year-old Commonwealth organization due to ong
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| Canada threatens to cut C’wealth funding |
| 2013-10-08 |
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has fired one shot at Sri Lanka and another across the bow of Commonwealth friends, confirming he will boycott next month’s leaders’ summit and threatening to cut off funding to the organization.
Mr. Harper is the only leader in the Commonwealth – the 54-nation organization of countries once part of the British empire – who will skip the November summit to protest against the host’s human-rights record, although he has hinted at his plans for two years.
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| I intend to attend CHOGM - Australian Prime Minister |
| 2013-10-08 |
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he has no intention of following Canada's leader in boycotting next month's Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka because of human rights concerns.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement on Monday, shortly before he met with Abbott in Bali, confirming his boycott of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
Harper and Abbott are on the Indonesian holiday island for the annual APEC leaders summit.
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| British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt exits |
| 2013-10-08 |
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British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt has confirmed he is leaving his position in Monday’s Cabinet reshuffle.
Burt posted on Twitter: “Standing down today. The last three and a half years have been a pleasure working on an extraordinary portfolio with talented people. Thank you all!”
Before entering the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the MP for North East Bedfordshire was an officer at the Conservative Friends of Israel lobby group.
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| India will facilitate meeting of fishermen's associations very soon: Khurshid |
| 2013-10-08 |
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The Indian government will facilitate a meeting between representatives of fishermen associations in India and Sri Lanka at the earliest, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said in Colombo on Monday.
Addressing a joint press conference with his Sri Lankan counterpart G.L. Peiris, he said that the Sri Lankan government had dealt with Indian fishermen in a compassionate and humanitarian way. Since it was a livelihood issue, India had asked Sri Lanka not to insist on the technicalities. Sri Lanka had released most of the a
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