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Article: TSUNAMI-IMPACT: INDIA'S AID TO SRI LANKA GETS WARM WELCOME
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- January 26, 2005
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Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
Inter Press Service English News Wire
01-26-2005
BANGKOK, Jan. 25, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- Within a month of the
tsunamis battering 12 countries across South and South-east Asia
together with East Africa, India has gained a new political
foothold in the Indian Ocean region.
None captures this emerging climate better than the reception
extended to India, itself a victim of the Dec. 26 tsunami, from Sri
Lanka. This week, an Indian naval medical team was given a rousing
farewell as it left the port town of Trincomalee, in north-east Sri
Lanka, after completing its mission of mercy.
Elsewhere across the South Asian island similar scenes of
gratitude are being enacted to ...