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P-TOMS : SLMC has difficulties by M. P. Muttiah Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader, Parliamentarian Rauf Hakeem, said at a press conference held at the SLMC headquarters yesterday that his party was not in league with Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and Jathika Hela Urumaya in opposing the P-TOMS. However, the SLMC has taken a position that extending cooperation to the P-TOMS is quite difficult. The SLMC leader said that some of the provisions in the P-TOM document were detrimental to the Muslim community. There should be an opportunity for the SLMC to raise the issue with the government and the LTTE. He said that the SLMC wanted to deal with the Government as well as the LTTE and the Muslim community is always for the co-existence with other communities. He called on the government and the LTTE to reconsider and review the detrimental provisions. ``Muslim Community had been assured by the international community, the Government and the LTTE that it would be a separate party to the peace process but P-TOMS has not made any provision for us to participate," he said. The SLMC, was exercising maximum restraint without taking a total rejectionist stand as P-TOMS was involved in the rebuilding of infrastructure and the damaged properties of the Tsunami-affected people, he said. Answering a question, Hakeem said that District Level Committee of the P-TOMS could be changed. Though his party would not be involved in regional and district level committees, it would contribute at the Divisional Secretariat level where Muslims were a majority. The SLMC leader called on the Muslim parliamentarians who are with the government to re-unite with his party to pressurise the government to accept the Muslim Community as a separate participant. |
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