{"id":114971,"date":"2013-11-16T00:06:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=114971"},"modified":"2013-11-20T03:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T21:42:14","slug":"pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Cameron Meets CM Wigneswaran In Jaffna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=S.Sivathasan&amp;x=9&amp;y=7\">S.Sivathasan<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85013\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/S.Sivathasan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85013\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-85013\" alt=\"S.Sivathasan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/S.Sivathasan-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/S.Sivathasan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/S.Sivathasan-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">S.Sivathasan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b><\/b>Knowing full well that a very productive meeting will take place between two stalwarts in a face to face engagement, I spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=C.V.+Wigneswaran&amp;x=10&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chief Minister<\/span><\/a> on 15<sup>th<\/sup> night. He was happy to speak quite precisely about the path breaking discussion he had with Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=David+Cameron&amp;x=12&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cameron<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uppermost in the Chief Minister\u2019 mind was the effective functioning of the Northern Provincial Council. Towards this end, he requested support from the Prime Minister and also his assistance. He supplemented his conversation with a prepared document outlining six issues of great concern. They were:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Demilitarisation of Northern Province and Transition from Military to Civilian Governor. The CM pointed out the clear statement in the Manifesto and the overwhelming vote received for its endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full implementation of the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment with a view to obtaining maximum devolution possible. To ensure meaningful devolution, the need to assign land and police powers to NPC was stressed.<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Strengthening and building Institutional Capacity of Northern Provincial Council and Provincial Administration. The importance of grants and technical assistance including info-communication assets was urged.<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Resettlement of the Internally Displaced. Funding and expertise to carry out this programme to meet international norms were seen as imperative.<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Post War Reconstruction and Rebuilding. The struggling Northern Province would look forward to UK taking the initiative together with Commonwealth partners, EU and USA to think of a \u2018Marshall Plan\u2019 not for restitution but for redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p>6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Education and Employment. Developing capacities in secondary and vocational segments is deemed essential. More important is to set sights at tertiary level particularly in ICT. For this purpose establishment of a \u2018Northern Institute of Information Technology\u2019- NIIT, under the aegis of the UK Government is envisaged.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister handed over three separate documents, outlining the above. Regarding Education, there was a lengthy note on establishing a Northern Institute of Information Technology. Prime Minister Cameron promised to look into all of them. He also undertook to take up every matter that was discussed with the President with whom he had a dinner engagement on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with there were questions by the Prime Minister and answers from the Chief Minister. About the discussion that followed, Cameron commented \u201cI had talked to so many about the Sri Lankan problem both in Sri Lanka as well as abroad. But this was the most lucid, clear, pointed, easy and logical discussion I have had. I thank you Mr. Chief Minister for that\u201d. He didn\u2019t fail to extend an invitation to the Chief Minister to No. 10, Downing Street saying \u201c He would be delighted to look after me when I come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister had this to say about the Prime Minister \u201c He is no doubt a handsome man and just one inch taller than I. Talks fast, thinks fast, on the dot and focused with regard to his facts and what he wants to find out. Quite young too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister was received by Mr. Sampanthan, Mr. sumanthiran and Chief Minister Wigneswaran. He said \u201che was happy that after 1948, he was the first Head of Government to visit Jaffna\u201d. The venue of the meeting was kept under wraps. Discussions took place in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> floor of Jaffna public library. The Prime Minister was accompanied by Edward Llewellyn, Chief of Staff to the PM.<\/p>\n<p>On their way back from the meeting, Chief Minister noted that the PM\u2019s car was mobbed by the dear ones of those who were missing. There were shouts and sobs and an open expression of grief. The PM\u2019s desire to meet them was being served.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of the meeting was that it started on an encouraging note and ended with hopes of optimism.<\/p>\n<p>[A comprehensive report will follow]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":85013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PM Cameron Meets CM Wigneswaran In Jaffna - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM Cameron Meets CM Wigneswaran In Jaffna - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-11-15T18:36:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-11-19T21:42:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/S.Sivathasan.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"336\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"417\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/\",\"name\":\"PM Cameron Meets CM Wigneswaran In Jaffna - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/S.Sivathasan.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-11-15T18:36:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-11-19T21:42:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pm-cameron-meets-cm-wigneswaran-in-jaffna\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/S.Sivathasan.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/S.Sivathasan.jpg\",\"width\":\"336\",\"height\":\"417\",\"caption\":\"S. 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