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'ICC Cannot Act Against US, Israel and Sri Lanka' Vol. 30 No. 208 Tuesday 19th July, 2011, 40 pages Rs. 20 Registered in Sri Lanka as a Newspaper - Late City Edition COULD FATIGUE AND FITCH UPGRADES THE DANGER OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DROWSINESS WHILE SRI LANKA’S MOVING BACK AND POLITICS IN THE DRIVING BE NO 1 SOVEREIGN RATINGS FROM DEVOLUTION NINETIES... 10 11 12 KILLER ON OUR ROADS? Financial Review Ranil demands Select Committee on foul petrol ‘ICC cannot act against BY PIYASENA DISSANAYAKE UNP and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday demanded that a parliamentary select committee US, Israel and Sri Lanka’ be appointed with regard to importing substandard petrol. ead of the International Criminal generally deal only with matters from Wickremesinghe said that he would Court Sang-Hyun Song has said countries that have endorsed the Rome request the government to consider Hthat his court has no jurisdiction Statute. And even then, it can only step the appointment to act on matters from non-signatory in if national legal systems are unwill- of the PSC as States such as Sri Lanka, Israel and the ing or unable to act. an urgent mat- US, a report in The Australian said. “The ICC, under any circumstances, ter and that Song, who runs a tribunal that sits will not and cannot and should not just this sugges- above national legal systems, says his jump over the national boundary of tion request- court complements national systems of sovereign states and stir around the ing the criminal justice. But some critics — par- normally functioning judicial system appointment of ticularly in the US — have described the of a sovereign state,” President Song the relevant ICC as a threat to national sovereignty. said. Select The report added: “All the concerns “It is basically your job and we Committee about national sovereignty, according remain outside the operation of the to President Song, are based on a mis- national legal system, just waiting to understanding of the court’s role.” step in in the case of inability or The ICC is a court of last resort. Its unwillingness.” However, at the height jurisdiction is limited to ending of last year’s furore over the prosecu- impunity for war crimes and a small tion of Australian troops, Australian number of similar “heinous” offences. academics pointed out that it was the The Australian report said it can Engineers warn: A devotee touches a Shivling, an idol symbolic of Hindu God Shiva, at a temple in Allahabad, India, Monday, July 18, 2011. Every Monday in the month of ‘sawan’, that coincides with the monsoon period in the Hindu calendar, is considered to be auspicious. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) CEB will have to depend on University teachers’ private power producers BY IFHAM NIZAM salaries talks end The Ceylon was currently operating Electricity Board would at full capacity (200 MW) have to depend on inde- as the Ceylon Petroleum in stalemate pendent power produc- Corporation was supply- Italian escort claims ers with water levels ing them with fuel, BY NILANTHA MADURAWALA she was part of a plot receding in major reser- Power and Energy Talks between the teachers be effective voirs, though the Lak Ministry said. against Silvio Berlusconi Federation of University from January 2011. He Wijaya (Norachcholai) The Chinese are cur- Teachers’ Associations, offered to make them and Yugadanavi rently attending to the the Salaries Commission effective from July, 2011 (Kerawalapitiya) were technical problems at and the Treasury ended instead, sources said. fully operations, senior officials said on the 300 MW power station in in a stalemate last Dr Jayasundera has Monday (18). Norachcholai, Puttalam. evening. also turned down the The storage capacity by Monday The CEB says if Norachcholai and Matters discussed at FUTA request to remove noon had dropped to 22.9 per cent. the Kerawalapitiya power plants are the meeting would be conditions attached to There were no rains in the Mahaweli operating smoothly then there will be Dr Devasiri presented to the Ex-Co of Dr Jayasundera granting 25 percent of areas. Light showers were reported no problems. the FUTA scheduled to meet today. the research allowances increment pro- from Castlereigh and Maussakelle. Sources said that Treasury Secretary posed in the last budget. The Kerawalapitiya Power station Dr P. B. Jayasundera did not agree with Chairman of the FUTA, Dr Nirmal the FUTA demand that the proposed Ranjith Devasiri, told The Island that salary increments to the university Patrizia D’Addario, 42, said she was paid 2,000 euros to spend the night SF allowed to withdraw appeal with the Italian prime minister, 74, fol- BY CHITRA WEERARATHNE lowing a party he hosted which was TNA will not withdraw Gen. Sarath Fonseka the Special leave to appeal application attended by several other escorts at yesterday sought the per- should be withdrawn since similar mat- his official residence three years ago. mission of the Supreme ters were still being challenged in the from LG elections Court to withdraw the Court of Appeal by way of Writs. special leave to appeal The withdrawal was allowed by the WORLD VIEW BY PABODHA HETTIGE application he had filed Supreme Court. Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Former TNA MP M. K. Sivajilingam in the Supreme Court, Mavai Senathirajah says that TNA will warned that his party would pull out of against an order of the not pull out from the forthcoming local the local government polls if harassment Court of Appeal, which refused him interim government elections despite the obstruc- persisted even after it was brought to the Fonseka tions to their election campaign in the notice of the Commissioner of Elections. relief, to get the proceed- North and the East. “The TNA is looking Senathirajah further said that MP M. K ings of the Court Martial forward and working hard to secure a vic- Sivajilingam had no authority to issue a II suspended. tory in both Northern and Eastern statement that the TNA would withdraw Shibly Aziz PC, who appeared for regions,” he said. from the local government elections. Fonseka, told the Supreme Court that Polls chief vows to get tough Two million bank heist at Kosgoda BY RANIL DHARMASENA BY LAL GUNASEKERA Elections Commissioner and election monitors that he would Mahinda Desapriya yesterday annul or postpone polls if any distur- A two-member gang on a motor vowed that he would not tolerate bances occur in polling booths. cycle robbed Rs. 2 million worth of abuse of State property and any He also said that he would resign gold jewellery that had been taken out ! CEB will have to depend on private other malpractice in the run up from the post and go home if any of of the vault for customers to redeem at power producers. to the July 23 local government his officials were found guilty of vio- the People’s Bank branch at Kosgoda, Balapitiya yesterday morning (18). ! Everthing is now dependent on the polls. lating any election He told general secretaries of Private sector. the parties contesting the polls Desapriya.
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