The President at Kite Festival

President flies kites ....with Vasudeva at Galle Face

The Hon. President and Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara flew kites at Galle Face Green, Colombo day-before-yesterday (19) at the National Kite Festival with the President Mahinda Rajapaksha taking prominence. Photos of the occasion seen below.
Various communities made this an opportunity to fly kites in a number of coastal areas islandwide at the same time while Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara said that it portrayed national integration. He further said that an environment should be developed in a manner so that various communities in the island could move about freely just as much as 'the kite floats away'.