Civil society role vital to peace- SLMM Trinco Head
[TamilNet, Sunday, 01 August 2004, 13:33 GMT]
Lions Club of Trincomalee Town honoured its past presidents at a special
event held Saturday at the Trincomalee New Silver Star Hotel with
Mr.Dagffin Aadness, Trincomalee head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission
(SLMM) as the chief guest. Mr Aadness speaking at the event said
the civil society including Lions Clubs and other organizations could play
a vital role in safeguarding the current peace environs, sources attending the event said.
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SLMM Trincomalee head Mr.Dagffin Aadness
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Mr Aadness said under the ceasefire agreement about fifty to sixty
Norwegian monitors are serving in the country to monitor the effective
implementation of the truce between the Government of Sri Lanka and the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) About eleven monitors are serving in the Trincomalee district, five are
land monitors and the rest are sea monitors. "We learn lot in
dealing with crisis situations between the parties concerned," said
Mr Aadness. Past Presidents Messrs M.M.Jalaldeen, N.Mahendran, N.Sadagopan,
B.Janaranjan, T.Sivaratnarajah and Ben Xavier were honoured
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Honoured past presidents of Trincomalee Town Lion Club Messrs M.M.jaladeen, N.Mahendran, N.Sadagopan, B.Janaranjan, T.Sivaratnarajah and Ben Xavier
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Mr. B.Uthayashankar, President of the Lions Club of Trincomalee Town
presided. In the annual programme of the Lions Movement, July has been designated to honour past presidents and the event has been organized to
honour past presidents of Lions Club of Trincomalee Town, said
Mr.Uthayashankar. Club Secretary Mr. C.J.Ratnakumar said, the club has
supplied food parcels to inmates of Shanmuga Boys Home and two push
bicycles donated by Swami Tantradeva to Shanmuga Girls Home. Club Treasurer
Ms J Umashankary presented her report.
(L-R) Trincomalee Town Lions Club Secretary Mr.C.J.Ratnakumar, Club President Mr.B.Uthayashankar, SLMM Trincomalee head Mr.Dagffin Aadness (lighting the lamp) and Lion former President Mr.B.Janaranjan
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