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Sri Lankan PM to Get Award as Asian Hero

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be conferred with the prestigious Asian Hero award by the Time magazine of the United States for his role in the country's peace process on next Wednesday following the conclusion of the Tokyo donor conference, officials said.


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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be conferred with the prestigious Asian Hero award by the Time magazine of the United States for his role in the country's peace process on next Wednesday following the conclusion of the Tokyo donor conference, officials said.

Wickremesinghe was selected as one of the 29 Asian heroes for 2003 in April 21 issue of the Asian edition of the Time magazine.

Time said that the Sri Lankan prime minister was selected for standing up to his president and other power forces with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.

Time said its Asian hero's extraordinary courage, charisma and genius enabled them to make a big difference in their societies or fields.

Wickremesinghe, who leads a government delegation, is now in Tokyo to attend the donor conference for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the war-torn country scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.

The prime minister restarted peace process in the country brokered by Norwegian facilitators soon after his United National Party defeated President Chandrika Kumaratunga's People's Alliancein December 2001 parliamentary elections.

Both sides have held six rounds of peace talks since last September but the LTTE rebels suspended the peace process in April and they have boycotted the Tokyo donor conference.


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