Pls understand how the UNP is pulling the leg of mother Lanka.
UNP opposes de-merger of Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern Provinces
Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 13:45 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
July 18, Colombo: United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Tissa
Attanayake has warned of drastic consequences over moves within the Sri
Lankan government ranks to de-merge the Northeastern Province.
The government’s ally, the People's Liberation Front (JVP), filed a
fundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court last week seeking the
de-merger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces and the setting up of
two separate provincial councils.
Attanayake has stated that any efforts to de-merge the Northeastern
Province without holding a referendum, as insisted upon under the Indo-
Lanka Peace Agreement of July 1987, would lead to the abrogation of that
agreement.
The Provincial Council system was introduced to eight Sri Lankan
Provinces and the Northern and Eastern Provinces were merged as one
single unit of devolution under the Indo-Lanka Peace Agreement. But the
Northeastern Provincial Council administration became defunct in 1988.
UNP opposes de-merger of Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern Provinces
Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 13:45 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
July 18, Colombo: United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Tissa
Attanayake has warned of drastic consequences over moves within the Sri
Lankan government ranks to de-merge the Northeastern Province.
The government’s ally, the People's Liberation Front (JVP), filed a
fundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court last week seeking the
de-merger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces and the setting up of
two separate provincial councils.
Attanayake has stated that any efforts to de-merge the Northeastern
Province without holding a referendum, as insisted upon under the Indo-
Lanka Peace Agreement of July 1987, would lead to the abrogation of that
agreement.
The Provincial Council system was introduced to eight Sri Lankan
Provinces and the Northern and Eastern Provinces were merged as one
single unit of devolution under the Indo-Lanka Peace Agreement. But the
Northeastern Provincial Council administration became defunct in 1988.
