UNP to help Northern IDPs

Ananda Kannangara

The United National Party launched a program to collect dry rations, milk foods, ready made garments and medicine to be distributed to over 180,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North.

UNP, General Secretary, Tissa Attanayake told the Sunday Observer that some UNP members visited the camps few weeks ago to look into the welfare of IDPs and decided to start this humanitarian program on the directive of UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.

In addition to donations made by district UNP organisers to this worthy cause, Attanayake also appealed individuals to make their contributions to the party Head Quarters.

“We have made arrangements to send these stocks to the welfare camps, set up in Vavuniya and Jaffna districts from next week,” he said.

When asked about the UNPs stand on the on going operations in the No Fire Zone (NFZ), Attanayake said his party always extended its fullest cooperation to eradicate terrorism and recalled the era when Sri Lankan armed forces under the UNP regime confined the LTTE to Vadamarachchi.

He also reiterated that the Government must seek a political solution and obtain the support of the international community to solve the problem.