A NEW DAWN

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• Our darkest hour
• was closest to
• dawn.

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• Our framework is
• predictable, flexible
• when appropriate, but
• firm and resolute when
• necessary.

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• We are willing to
• listen, to learn and to
• be inventive in our
• quest for peace.

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• If we are unable
• to demonstrate the
• dividend that peace
• will bring, we risk a
• breakdown of the
• negotiations and a
• resumption of the
• hostilities.

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• progressed from
• mutual suspicion
• tinged with hatred,
• to mutual caution

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• Funds are urgently
• required for
• rehabilitation as well
• as for laying the
• foundation for overall
• economic recovery.

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• Regaining Sri Lanka
• is designed to redress the
• imbalance between
• aspirations and
• opportunities.

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• It is not feasible for us to
• deal with reconstruction
• of war ravaged areas in
• isolation from the
• development of the rest
• of the country.

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• It is now,
• or perhaps
• never!

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