Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttuwas a Ceylonese civil servant and sports administrator...
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu quotes about
bargaining form might move position talking toward
That might be a bargaining position and it might move from there toward talking about some form of federalism, but that's still a long way off.
geneva optimistic perhaps reasonably round second
I'm still reasonably optimistic that we will perhaps have a second round of Geneva talks.
rid step time
Every time they want to get rid of Norway, they find there are no other takers. Who else is going to step in? No one is.
depth intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals point reputation selling strongest worthy
His strongest selling point is his international reputation as a diplomat. He has the gravitas, the intelligence and the depth to be worthy of this post.
certainly country cynicism promises
Certainly they will use it to show that promises made will be fulfilled. But in this country there's cynicism about promises made being kept.
agree bloody reason stupid talk
They'll look bloody stupid if at the end of the day the only reason why they couldn't get to talk to each other is because they couldn't agree where to do it.
war thinking people
Well I think what - the way things have improved obviously is that the killing has stopped in so for as there is no war. But if you talk to people in the north and east in general, there is a concern that the freedom that they expected as a consequence of the end of the war has yet to be realised.
army thinking talking
I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.
war rights people
The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.