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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7552664" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6479/63909785.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Washington, DC, United States (AHN) - Sri Lanka's minister for  external affairs, G.L. Peiris, left a scheduled meeting with journalists  at the National Press Club Thursday morning without speaking.<img src="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/images/cp.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />He  had been slated to address them as a precursor to his Friday meeting  with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Peiris arrived at the building  with a Secret Service security detail, but left without explanation  after going to the 14th floor where he was to speak.  No reason  for his departure was given by his spokesman, but the National Press  Club recently awarded the organization's 2009 International Freedom of  the Press Award to slain Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga,  editor of the Sunday Leader.  His widow, journalist  Sonali Samarasinghe, accepted the award at a function on April 21.   Samarasinghe is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and said when she  accepted the award that she cannot return to Sri Lanka as long as the  government of Mahinda Rajapakse is in power.  Her husband was the  14th journalist murdered in Sri Lanka in the last five years. Some 15  senior journalists from that country are now in exile and at least 20  more are waiting to be evacuated to safety, she said.<a href="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018820017?Lankan%20Minister%20Leaves%20National%20Press%20Club%20Without%20Addressing%20Journalists" target="_blank">AHN</a></blockquote>

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