Report in Daily FT, Aug 9, 2023Asks 13A to be implemented in its original form with land, police, finance and administrative powersA coalition of Tamil political parties in a letter addressed to President Ranil Wickremesinghe have expressed their dissent against his appeal for parties to submit their views and proposals on the implementation of the 13th amendment. The alliance consisting of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), Democratic People’s Liberation Front (DPLF), Eelam People’s Revolutionary…
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report in The Morning, June 11, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to visit India next month on his first official tour since assuming office as President, it is learnt. A highly-placed Government source told The Sunday Morning that the President was expected to visit India between 20 and 30 July. It is also learnt that 21 July has been tentatively set for the meeting between Wickremesinghe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Wickremesinghe is also…
report in Daily FT, 2 May 2023President and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday extended a direct invitation to the main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) to join and form a government. “During the last election, some MPs from the SJB chose to abstain from voting. We all share the same goal of building an open economy. Therefore, let us unite and work together by forming a parliament and a government,” Wickremesinghe told the UNP’s May…
AFP report, March 4, 2023COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s top court on Friday ordered the government to proceed with a delayed local election, overruling President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said the country was too broke to pay for it. The Supreme Court ordered Sri Lanka’s treasury to grant funds for the polls which were originally planned for March 9, but put off indefinitely last week when the government refused to finance them. Wickremesinghe had said the island nation,…
By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Feb 6, 2023The government hasn’t received proposals from political parties regarding President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s decision to implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution fully. President Wickremesinghe, on January 26, requested party leaders to furnish their suggestions, if any, by Feb. 04 as he intended to brief Parliament on Feb. 08 as regards the implementation of land and police powers. Political parties, represented in Parliament, had not responded to President…
By Kelum Bandara in The Daily Mirror, Feb 6, 2023 kThe government has sought a telephone conversation between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss debt restructuring and the future of bilateral relations, an informed source said . China , India and Japan are the largest bilateral creditors to Sri Lanka . Their assurances are key to unlock the US $ 2.9 billion programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). China has…
report in Daily FT, Jan 12, 2023The talks between several Tamil political parties in Sri Lanka with President Ranil Wickremesinghe have been postponed indefinitely. The group including the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) were set to engage in a marathon round of talks with Wickremesinghe commencing yesterday and continuing till 13 January. Instead, the parties have submitted three demands to President Wickremesinghe calling on him to provide solutions to these within a week’s time. They are…
by Charindra Chandrasena in The Morning, Jan 9, 2023The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not made an immediate reduction in the defence expenditure of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) a precondition for the provision of the eagerly awaited Board-level approval for the $ 2.9 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), according to President Ranil Wickremesinghe. “The IMF is looking for the reduction of military expenditure, but only in stages. The bulk of the military expenditure…