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MEP says JM threat to national security, seeks meeting with President
By Santhush Fernando
The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, a constituent party in the UPFA, has requested a meeting with President Chandrika Kumaratunga to explain why it feels that the Joint Mechanism proposals are a threat to national security.

MEP General Secretary Piyasena Dissanayake said the request was made after the party's central committee had discussed in detail the proposed Joint Mechanism aimed at the distribution of tsunami aid for the North and East, including the LTTE-controlled areas.

He said the MEP agreed in principle that tsunami rebuilding work should take place at the grassroots level, but it was opposed to the structuring of the JM on national, regional and district basis.

Mr. Dissanayake said the party had also requested the President to make the proposals public. He said the MEP feared that the temporary arrangement envisaged in the Joint Mechanism proposals would eventually become permanent just like the merger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces after the 1987 Indo-Lanka agreement and the 13th Amendment.

MEP sources said the party was not happy with an SLFP statement which claimed that all but one in the UPFA coalition supported the Joint Mechanism proposals.
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