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Embassy of Sri Lanka, P O Box 94360, Riyadh 11693, Saudi Arabia Volume 1 Issue 11 - Apr 2009 Web: www.lankaemb-riyadh.org Email: [email protected] Tel: +966-1-460-6906/460-8689 / 460-8232/460-8235 Fax: +966-1-460-0846 King Abdullah Receives Sri Lankan Business Opportunities National Day Homes of Colombo ctd p3 Cinnamon Products, Cloves, Black Dr Schokman lived in this house called Pepper, Coffee Delegates Celebrations Pics In “Valerest” opposite the Havelock Park. Mr.P.Runage, Managing Director Stewart Orr of the Municipal Council Rathna Producers & Exporters (Pvt) Eastern Province lived in this house previously and it was Akuressa Road , Kamburupitiya, Matara called ‘Dilkusha’. Tel: +94 41 2292299 Fax: +94 11 2699029 In its front yard was a beautiful circular Email: [email protected] sunken garden. In later years the house Web: www.rathna.150m.com was converted into a restaurant. Ayurveda Products (Balm, Oil, Adjoining the northern bund of the canal Toothpaste, Soap, Cream, Cologne) was the Government Senior School, Mr.Tharindu Perera which later transferred to Maharagama. Hettigoda Industries ( Pvt ) Ltd During World War II it housed the Royal No.33/3, Sri Darmarama Road, Primary School when the entire Royal Ratmalana, Sri Lanka College complex was used as a military Tel: +94 11 2736910 hospital. Today the buildings are the Fax: +94 112735465 home to Lumbini Maha Vidyalaya. Email: [email protected] Opposite the school was a row of small Web: www.siddhalepa.com shops and houses including a bicycle repair service, which was popular with Fishing Boats, Life Crafts & students and adults alike, as many Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah, receives Sri Lankan delegate, Rismi Surveillance Boats adults cycled to work in the city and Reyal, Chairman and Managing Director of the Traveler Globe ,left, and Mohammed Mr. P. N. Neil Fernando, Chairman would stop by to pump up their tyres. Muzaffar, director Foreign Relations of the Makola Muslim Children's Orphanage at the Neil Fernando & Co (Pvt) Ltd Political freedom is the absence of Yamamah Palace in Riyadh recently during a banquet at the National Heritage and Culture No.11, Alexandra Road ,Colombo 06 interference with the sovereignty of an Festival in Janadriyah In one of these houses lived Mr M. E. Tel: +94 11 2588234, 2502154 individual by the use of coercion or Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, received the Piyasena, affectionately known by the Fax: +94 11 2580756 aggression. The members of a free two Sri Lankan delegates , who came for the National Heritage and Culture Festival boys as “Vathey”, teacher at the Royal in Janadriya on his invitation. Email: [email protected] Primary School and a great organizer in society would have full dominion over Web: www.neilmarine.com the Boy Scout movement. Lawrence their public and private lives. The Sri Lankan delegates, prominent social worker Rismi Reyal, chairman and Tudawe of the building firm Tudawe opposite of a free society would be a Printing & Real Estate totalitarian state, which highly restricts managing director of the Traveller Globe and Mohammed Muzaffar, director foreign Brothers lived in the freestanding house Vijay N. Vijayratnam, Director next door. A few houses further on lived political freedom in order to regulate relations of the Makola Muslim Children's Orphanage met the monarch at the NENASALA S. B. Lekamge, a lawyer, whose wife almost every aspect of behavior. In this Yamamah Palace in the Saudi capital . Colombo Fort Railway Station, Col 1 was a teacher at the Royal Primary sense ‘freedom’ refers solely to the Tel. +94-11 5655050 or 5655051 relation of humans to other humans, President Mahinda Rajapaksa had attended the Janadriyah function in January School. In the adjoining lane was the Email: [email protected] and the only infringement on it is 2002 on behalf of the Sri Lanka–Palestinian Friendship Society when Ibrahim Sahib home of Dr C. O. Perera, then Ansar was in Riyadh as the island's Ambassador. http://www.colombofort.com Superintendent of the Mental Hospital. coercion by humans http://www.realtorlanka.com To be continued Addressing the foreign dignitaries who came to attend the National Heritage and The concept of political freedom is very Culture Festival in Janadriya at a banquet , King Abdullah asked the guests to carry closely allied with the concepts of civil EDITORIAL BOARD liberties and individual rights, which a message of goodwill from Saudi Arabia to their respective countries. The King Honorary Members in most democratic societies is the thanked the guests and told them to convey the greetings of the people of Saudi A Sabarullah Khan profession characterized by various Arabia to their fellow countrymen. W A Sarath Kumara freedoms which are afforded the legal Yasantha de Silva protection of the state. “I welcome you all with the greetings of Islam to Saudi Arabia,” King Abdullah said. M C Rasooldeen J.P THE King received a commemorative gift from the delegates on the occasion of the Fazli Sameer Various groups along the political silver jubilee of the Janadriya Festival. ctd on page 3 [email protected] This issue of Insight is sponsored by spectrum naturally differ on what they TURKI ABDUL HAMEED CONTG. EST. believe constitutes "true" political TURKI ABDUL HAMEED CONTG. EST. Printed at Al Raja Press, Riyadh freedom. General Contracting of Building Maintenance, Cleaning & Operation of Building, Road Works, +966-1-453-8811 (Tel), 470-1167 (Fax) Electrical, Mechanical, & Industrial Contracting Mobile: 050-323-1721 Left wing political philosophy generally P O Box 756, King AbdulAziz Street, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia Tel/Fax: (04) 390 8220 PAGE 4 couples the notion of freedom with that of positive liberty, or the see page 2 Insight – Apr 2009 Insight –Apr 2009 Freedom ctd from page 1 RIYADH SLES SPORTS MEET 2009 Homes of Colombo Japan, Saudi Arabia King Abdullah enabling of an individual to realize his or Fund Moragahakanda Receives SL her own potential. Freedom, in this from page 1 sense, may include freedom from Project Delegates poverty, starvation, treatable disease, The festival is designed to portray the and oppression, as well as freedom from force and coercion, from variety of cultural aspects of the whomever they may issue. Kingdom’s different regions. A wide range of activities, including sword Some people treat freedom as if it were dances, heritage and history exhibitions, almost synonymous with democracy, culinary specialties and stunts are while other people see conflicts or even Oasis was bounded by Felsinger Town, organized to educate and entertain a conglomeration of houses owned by opposition between the two concepts. visitors. the Felsinger family, on the northern side. Oasis closed down in the nineteen Environmentalists often argue that The Sri Lankan delegates also attended political freedoms should include some fifties and its former site is now a luncheon hosted by Culture and Sabarullah Khan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Sri Lankan Embassy, and his wife are constraint on use of ecosystems. They obliterated with houses, and shops. Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja in being received by the school prefects. maintain there is no such thing, for Adjoining its southern border was honor of the foreign guests after Friday instance, as "freedom to pollute" or Ÿamuna”, the home of H Sri Nissanka, prayers. The Minister told the "freedom to deforest" given that such Q. C. It was at this house that the historic participants that the Kingdom’s purpose activities create negative externalities. Yamuna Conference was held by the late in inviting guests to the annual cultural The popularity of SUVs, golf, and urban Prime Minister, Mr S. W. R. D. festival was to let the world know about Bandaranaike, the first meeting of his sprawl has been used as evidence that the Kingdom’s rich culture and heritage. parliamentary supporters following his some ideas of freedom and ecological The minister said that interaction would resignation from the U. N. P. in 1951. It conservation can clash. This leads at lead to understanding between Saudi times to serious confrontations and was this meeting that led to the founding Arabia and other countries. clashes of values reflected in of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. The Government of Sri Lanka has Thanking the monarch for the advertising campaigns that suffer the allocated Rs. 3,750 million for the work of views of animal rights activits, for The house and its garden stands exactly opportunity given to participate in the as it was fifty years ago, one of the few the Moragahakanda- Kaluganga mega cultural event in the Middle East, example. Reservoir Project, which is the largest that has withstood pressures from the Sri Lankan delegate Mohammed Rizmi soaring land values in Colombo. Across and the final agri-reservoir project in Sri Reyal said that the show presented the There have been numerous Lanka under the Mahaweli Development philosophical debates over the nature of the road was the Wellawatte Spinning correct image of Saudi Arabia . “What Scheme. Sabarullah Khan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Sri Lankan Embassy, SriLankan Airlines and Weaving Mils, the largest industrial we hear in the media is not what we see freedom, the claimed differences between various types of freedom, and Manager Indunil Wijekone and Principal M.E.M.Farook, right , take the salute during the enterprise in Colombo South at the time. here,” Reyal said, describing Saudi march past It was established by Darley Butler and Agriculture Development and Agrarian Arabia as a country with a rich heritage the extent to which freedom is Services Minister Maithripala Sirisena desirable. Sabarullah Khan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Sri Lankan Embassy was the Co and at one time was owned by of which every Saudi citizen could be Chief Guest, while SriLankan Airlines Manager for Central Province, Indunil Goculdas, the Maharajah of Gwalior.
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