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JVP says it’s for a pluralistic society
The JVP in a statement issued yesterday said it regrets that a large number of people, particularly those who lived in the North and East have left the country since hostilities began and said the party wished them to return to build up our common future.

“The people who have suffered the most in this war have been those in the Northern and Eastern provinces with large numbers of Tamils settling in the Western Province or emigrating to foreign countries”, the party said.
It said the JVP believes the meeting in Geneva this week between the Government and the LTTE should be to remove whatever impediments there are for the exercise of the rights of all Sri Lankans.

The party added that the Geneva talks should be to implement the local electoral mandate given at the Presidential election for a unitary state, rejection of artificially constructed and invented so-called traditional homelands and for the free exercise of democratic and human freedoms and the global consensus rejecting terrorism.

The JVP said also said it notes the current consensus all over the world to reject terrorism, that is, to reject attacks on civilian non-combatants as a means of settling disputes.

“The JVP looks at the preparations for the talks with satisfaction as fulfilling the mandate given by the free exercise of the vote. The JVP stands for a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious society in Sri Lanka without any ethnic or religious borders,” the statement said.

The JVP also stands for the full expression of the democratic rights and human freedoms of all the people in Sri Lanka. The statement said the JVP believes that the war that began in the 1970s and has lasted for nearly 30 years is unnecessary and must be stopped.

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