It shot to fame towards the close of the war when Mr Wickrematunge was assassinated by men who have never been caught.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon struck a personal note in his opening remarks, as he recalled his childhood as a displaced person at the close of World War II when his mother, like other women enjoyed little help bringing children into the world.
In many ways, it started immediately, in Leipzig on the close of World War I.
It was April 9, 1945, agonizingly close to the end of the war in Europe.
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Obama and Karzai, who met a day ahead of Monday's NATO talks on Afghanistan, both agreed that the end of the war was close.
Kibaki is close ally of the US in the war against Islamic terror.
But as the fourth year of the war in Iraq comes to a close, the homeless vet may be someone far younger.
Strangely, it is hard to reconcile the close historical proximity of war with peace.
Germany's jobless total remains stubbornly close to the post war record of five million reached in March.
Current U.S. spending of 3.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defense programs is astonishingly lower than the 38% spent at the close of WWII, the 11.7% spent during the Korean War, the 9.8% spent at the height of the Vietnam War, or the average of 5.2% spent during the last decade of the Cold War.
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But Americans and Paraguayans alike scoff at claims of a base at Mariscal Estigarribia, close to the Bolivian border (the scene of a 1932-35 war).
Syria was a close ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Iraq maintains that it no longer has any such programmes, although one senior Iraqi official has all but admitted that the country came close to building an atomic bomb in 1991, at the time of the Gulf war.
From the end of World War II to 2000, the U.S. averaged close to 3.5% annual growth net of inflation.
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Of course, I still have trouble with the current negative real return of the ten-year Treasuries, which are poised to close at the lowest yield since World War II.
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But despite these convulsions, there have been times of close co-operation - in the first Gulf War, in Bosnia and now Afghanistan.
From a peak of 87m in 1995, it is expected to fall to about 52m by 2050, leaving it close to its level at the end of the second world war.
Unlike most of the Clintonistas he had seen war up close, observing the desperate, aimless crowds in ruined Japan as a naval ensign in 1945.
Not so much because of all the social and technology shifts since then, but because that year is so close to the high-water mark of U.S. predominance as the only great power to come out of World War II more or less intact.
Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith's announcement Wednesday that he would return to private life brings to a close four distinguished, but grueling, years at the forefront of the War on Terror.
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In other words, the war brought with it a GDP increase of close to 75% in just four years!
Only in recent years have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.
Only in the last decade or so have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.
The BBC Trust was set up in 2007 to replace the board of governors, which had become caught up in a row over reporting of the Iraq war and was perceived as being too close to the corporation.
Ms Moggach's grandmother, who lost her husband, her only brother and 11 cousins in the slaughtering fields of the first world war, was the inspiration for this cleverly written tale of domestic intrigue in the sooty streets of Southwark, a working-class district of London just south of the Thames, as the war draws to its close.
As a result, one week from tomorrow, the U.S. combat phase of that war will close.
Zdravko Tolimir, a close aide to Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic during the Bosnian War, is accused of war crimes at the international tribunal at The Hague.
For the Lib Dems, foreign affairs spokesman Edward Davey said the documents "confirm the widely held suspicions that leading officials and political advisers close to Tony Blair were deliberately tweaking the presentation of the intelligence to bolster the case for war on Iraq".
Ninety-one years ago today, the battlefields of Europe fell quiet as World War I came to a close.
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In 1945, the U.S. and Soviet armies met in the east German city of Torgau as World War II drew to a close in Europe.
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