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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 10876" data-attributes="member: 212">Pls understand how the UNP is pulling the leg of mother Lanka.UNP opposes de-merger of Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern ProvincesTuesday, July 18, 2006, 13:45 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.July 18, Colombo: United National Party (UNP) General Secretary TissaAttanayake has warned of drastic consequences over moves within the SriLankan government ranks to de-merge the Northeastern Province.The government’s ally, the People's Liberation Front (JVP), filed afundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court last week seeking thede-merger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces and the setting up oftwo separate provincial councils.Attanayake has stated that any efforts to de-merge the NortheasternProvince without holding a referendum, as insisted upon under the Indo-Lanka Peace Agreement of July 1987, would lead to the abrogation of thatagreement.The Provincial Council system was introduced to eight Sri LankanProvinces and the Northern and Eastern Provinces were merged as onesingle unit of devolution under the Indo-Lanka Peace Agreement. But theNortheastern Provincial Council administration became defunct in 1988.</blockquote>

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