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S stanley cup ri Lanka announced on Thursday it would repossess part of a strategic oil storage depot from a state-run Indian firm after Delhi supported international ca stanley cup lls to probe war crimes on the island. HT Image Information minister Keheliya Rambukwella said there were provisions to repossess tanks that were not being used by the Indian Oil Companys local unit, Lanka IOC, in the northeastern port of Trincomalee. If they are not using the tanks, we can use them, Rambukwella told reporters. This is stanley cup for the country. If they are not using these tanks, the CPC state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation wants to take them back and put them into good use. Rambukwella denied that the move to repossess the facilities, which were privatised in 2003, was in retaliation for India voting with the US to censure Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday. The CPC had wanted to expand. They need at least three tanks in Trincomalee to store their chemicals and other products, he said, adding that there were legal provisions for the government to repossess the tanks. Lanka IOC chief Subodh Dakwale said he was unaware of government plans to take back some of the tanks at the Trincomalee tank farm. We are right now spending $17 million to refurbish two tanks and we are quite unaware of the plan to take over some of them, Dakwale told AFP. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across th Ggii EC approves extra aid for Philippine war victims
Bangl stanley cup adesh has once again rejected an Indian proposal for a bilateral extradition treaty to exchange criminals hiding in each other s territory, an official was quoted as saying in a newspaper report on Wednesday. HT Image Any such treaty must involve others of the eight-member South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARC , Dhaka insists. The three-day ninth home-secretary level meeting between Bangladesh and India begins in Dhaka on Friday, with New Delhi likely to press for an extradition treaty, The Daily Star newspaper said on Wednesday. India is keen to sign an extradition treaty with Bangladesh only, but Dhaka is not interested as the treaty should involve all members of the regional forum, an unnamed foreign ministry official told the newspaper. The issue has been pending for long, even as both the South Asian neighbours accuse each other of illegal movement through a 4,300 km porous border. Besides common law-breakers, India says several leaders and activists of the militant outfits of its northeastern region are operating from Bangladeshi soil. Dhaka responds with a similar accusation about adidas originals political fugitives stanley cup taking shelter in India. In 2002, India sought Dhaka s cooperation in mutual legal assistance, counter-terrorism and extradition. The Bangladesh foreign ministry official said SAARC leaders at their recent summit in Colombo signed an agreement on mutual legal cooperation and counter-terrorism, covering the extradition issue. Since a |
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