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Indian PM to address colloquium
The Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh will inaugurate a colloquium in New Delhi on April 8 in honour of the late Dr. Lal Jayawardena, economist and diplomat, and a former Treasury Secretary and High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to the United Kingdom. Mr N. Ram, Editor of The Hindu will chair the colloquium. Finance Minister Sarath Amunugama, will attend the colloquium as the special representative of the President of Sri Lanka.

The colloquium will focus on some key development issues with which Dr. Jayawardena was involved during his career in Sri Lanka and in the United Nations. These include Hunger and Poverty in Economic Development, Structural Adjustment in Developing Countries, Employment, and South Asian Regional Economic Cooperation.

Among the 80 invitees attending the colloquium are: from India: Minister of Petroleum and Panchayat Mani Shankar Aiyer, Dr. Montik Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman Indian Planning Commission, Dr. Arjun Singh Gupta, Dr. Bimal Jalan, former Governor of Reserve Bank of India and current Member of Parliament, the Editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, Shri Rammanohar Reddy and from Sri Lanka: the immediate family of Dr. Jayawardena, Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in India Mangala Moonesinghe, Dr. A.S. Jayawardena and Dr. Saman Kelegama.

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