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won’t state its position on JM until govt. approves it Speaking at a UNP meeting at Hakmana, Mr. Wickremesinghe said the UNP would also have to do a careful study on the JM. The Opposition Leader last week turned down an invitation by President Chandrika Kumaratunga to discuss the development of a common program for the implementation of humanitarian efforts in the tsunami-affected areas. In a letter sent to the President's Office on May 6, UNP Chairman Malik Samarwickrama had informed the President's Chief-of-Staff and Additional Secretary P. Dissanayake that a common programme for the Implementation of humanitarian effort for the tsunami-affected areas has already been set out by Mr. Wickremesinghe in a document entitled "Making rehabilitation programs people centred" that was handed over to the President on January 25. Meanwhile, President Chandrika Kumaratunga, in a letter dated the same day had conveyed her "surprise and regret" at the UNP's rejection of her invitation. In her letter to Mr. Wickremesinghe, the President had stressed that the proposal for the establishment of a Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure was not a part of the peace process. The President had called the proposal "an administrative arrangement consisting of a group of committees with the objective of ensuring a more equitable and efficient utilisation of foreign aid for post-tsunami reconstruction, within a limited area of two kilometres from the coastline, in six districts of the Northern and Eastern provinces". Meanwhile, the Opposition Leader, speaking at the Hakmana meeting had stressed that if the UNP's peace process was continued it would have solved a lot of the country's problems by now. Mr. Wickremesinghe also accused the President of crippling the peace process by focusing mainly on keeping herself in power. |
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