Play active role in APRC, Co-chairs tell Ranil

The Co-chairs of the Tokyo Donor Conference who are meeting in Oslo today have also pressurized Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the UNP to be more actively involved in the All Party Conference to come up with a solution to the ethnic conflict, diplomatic sources said.
It is learnt that this was expressed during a meeting between Mr. Wickremesinghe and the donor countries as well as at another separate meeting with foreign ambassadors recently in Colombo.
The donor nations, who already claimed that the ongoing peace process is at a ‘deadlock’ as both the government and the LTTE were not interested in a political solution, is however happy with the setting up of the All Party Representatives Committee (APRC), a top diplomat said.
“The donor nations have expressed their dissatisfaction to Mr. Wickremesinghe for not supporting the APRC, which has been set up to find a solution to the ethnic crisis,” a foreign diplomatic source told the Daily Mirror.
He also said that donor nations had reportedly told Mr. Wickremesinghe that he would lose international support if he maintained the current policy on the ethnic issue.