Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Chandigarh-Sri Lanka peace forum launched: Times of india

NEGAMBO (SRI LANKA): Representatives of Chandigarh were part of an initiative to foster better understanding between India and Sri Lanka following the three-decade violence by Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

An MOU to set up a forum was signed between a city-based youth and Gandhian organization Yuvsatta and Sri Lanka United Nations Friendship Organisation (SUNFO) at Don Bosco Technical Centre at this city, 40 km from Colombo.

Yuvsatta and SUNFO signed a logo bearing flags of India and Pakistan and logos of the two civil society organizations.

Among the signatories were children orphaned by Tsunami and Tamil Eelam violence. The children, both Tamils and Sinhalese wanted to bring about peace between two warring ethnic groups in Sri Lanka.

One of the speakers said, "The first link between Sri Lanka and India was created by the Adam's bridge (Ram Setu) and the new link will be the Gandhian bridge to bring peace in the country working on rehabilitating the

people displaced by a war between the Sri Lankan army and LTTE. The forum has come about only few days after Indian external affairs minister SM Krishna visited the country amidst reports of China coaxing the island nation after already having displaced Japan as the top trading power of the country on Indias southern tip.

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