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Tamil political parties in Sri Lanka suggest a federal system Saturday, April 21, 2007, 14:12 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Apr 21, Colombo: The Tamil political parties in Sri Lanka, TULF, PLOTE and EPRLF have proposed a solution to the ethnic problem based on a federal system after radical changes to the Constitution.
In a joint statement submitted to the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) these parties said “In our opinion taking these as the basis for discussions will accelerate the finding a final solution.”
The statement said that radical constitutional changes should be made to devolve powers based on federalism. Even if the constitution is not termed as "Federal", the spirit of it should be based on the Indian model which could be acceptable to all sections of the people, it added.
“Since a lot of controversies had been created in the merger of North-East, we wish to make our position clear. It is an undeniable fact that the people of North-East are the most affected, compared to people in other parts of the country. We believe a reasonable solution could be found only within a merged North-East administration, because problems faced by the people of North-East, are more inter-related,” it added.