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President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in her Sinhala Tamil New Year message has urged everyone to usher in a peace that guarantees and safeguards the freedom, democratic rights and human rights of the people of all the areas of the country. The message adds:

"The one great hope of the people is that the present effort for peace and national unity will be crowned with success. They expect an honourable peace. Certainly we need a peace that ensures to all ethnic and religious groups their rights legally and constitutionally.

"When creating conditions for the dawn of peace to the North and East, we cannot be unmindful of the peace and unity in the rest of the country. Peace is not divisible. It should be equally meaningful to all.

Without peace and unity of the South, peace and unity of the North or East cannot be thought to be complete.

"In this exercise eschewing of enmity, vindictiveness, violence and terror is indispensable. It is only then that politics of co-habitation based on consensus can be made a success. It, therefore, becomes very clear that we must build a peace that guarantees and safeguards the freedom, democratic rights and human rights of the people of all the areas of the country.

"Let us resolve on this New Year Day to strive to usher in a peace, which meets these objectives. I fervently wish you all a happy New Year!"

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