Shield agreement through the quality of solidarity and collaboration: President

We commend the beginning of this New Year with numerous trusts and yearnings in our souls. With the vital defining moment of our country saw in January a year ago, today we are in the edge of an unequivocal period of rapid and practical improvement of our nation that would be of significance to us as well as to the future eras, President Maithripala Sirisena states in a New Year message.
The message included: "As I underscored in my New Year all the best to you a year ago, we have seen the reclamation of majority rule flexibilities,



completion of debasement and roughness, foundation of compromise, recovering of global goodwill.

We have accomplished them as a consequence of the determination and conviction showed by you in last January a year ago.

I maintained the trust and certainty you set on me and satisfied the guarantee of making 2015 a triumphant year.

The coming year, 2016 too will likewise be year without rest for you and us. We need to proceed tenaciously on the way to manufacture a prosperous future for our two million individuals. With preparation to avoid control instead of snatch force, with great expectations and non-scornful musings we have engaged the general population and changed the customary contentions in Sri Lankan governmental issues. All these are to be proceeded in one year from now's plan as well.

We can procure the harvest of our triumph just by producing solidarity and collaboration through trust to walk forward.

Consequently, our regular determination in the New Year ought to be to shield the concordance through the quality of solidarity and collaboration.

I wish every one of you a prosperous and upbeat New Year free of distresses and disease.

Sukki deegayu bhava. Theruwen sarani.

Might you be sound.

Might the Noble Triple Gem favor you."