SL President meets Co-Chairs, World Bank Director

[TamilNet, Monday, 09 January 2006, 11:15 GMT]
Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse met with Ambassadors of Co-chairs of Tokyo Donor Conference at the President's office on Monday. Separately, Mr Dhanendrakumar, World Bank's Executive Director for Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan made a courtesy call on the SL President Monday, parliamentary sources in Colombo said

President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse met with Mr.Akio Suda Ambassador of Japan, Mr.Mr.Juliyan Wilson EU, Mr. Jeffrey Lunstead Ambassdor of USA, Mr.Hans Brattskar Ambassador of Norway, Mr.Van Dijjk Ambassador of Netherland and discussed issues related to the escalating violence in the NorthEast and exchanged views on deciding on the venue for peace talks.

Mr.Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the President, Dr.P.B.Jayasundara, Secretary of Finance, Mr.Gothabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary of Defence, Mr.Ajith Niwad Cabral, Secretary of Planning and Mr.Daya Sandagiri, Chief of Staff also accompanied the President to the meeting with the Ambassadors.