UNP’s standpoint on 13th Amendment

The main opposition UNP said it would extend its fullest support to implement the 13th Amendment, if the proposals of the Amendment could bring fruitful results to achieve a lasting solution to the present crisis.

UNP front-liner Lakshman Seneviratne told the Sunday Observer yesterday that the party had called upon the Government to reveal the proposals of the 13th Amendment forthwith to enable the people in the country to study it.

Seneviratne said his party also expressed concern over different statements being made by the JHU and the Jathika Nidahas Peramuna which are opposed to the implementation of the 13th Amendment. Another senior UNP Parliamentarian said he himself and several other Government MPs were personally against the granting of Police and Land powers to Provincial Councils. When contacted JVP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath, said that his party does not want to implement the 13th Amendment in full and expressed displeasure over the Police and Land powers being given to Provincial Councils.

He said the LTTE no longer exists in the country and called upon the Government to drop the matter of co-chairs. He also called upon the Government to refrain from dealing with any country in terms of co-chairs.

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