The Mahinda Rajapaksa administration is facing a formidable challenge to present a final set of proposals to resolve the ethnic conflict, at the U.N. General Assembly next month, as the All Party Representative Conference (APRC) has facing conflict within its ranks.The country’s main opposition party, the UNP, has been withdrawn from the APRC. The JHU has branded the APRC Chairman as a partner to an LTTE conspiracy. ‘Mr. Tissa Witharana an agent of the West not his proposal find out solution for the problem”, JHU policy maker and minister of environment Champika Ranawaka told Colombo based weekly news paper.
The JVP has warned that if the APRC goes for a federal solution instead of devolving power within a united Sri Lanka as mooted by the ‘Mahinda Chintana’, the government would have to face serious repercussions.
It is reported that President Rajapaksa in his second speech as Sri Lanka’s president at the UN, is due to make a review of the national conflict and how to solve it.
Meanwhile, the government has decided to appoint a committee headed by the Prime Minister to decide on the unit of devolution and the nature of the state, after the President met party leaders at the APRC on August 23rd.
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