{"id":39817,"date":"2012-04-26T00:55:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T00:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=39817"},"modified":"2012-04-26T00:55:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T00:55:14","slug":"discussed-13th-amendment-says-sushma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/discussed-13th-amendment-says-sushma\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussed 13th Amendment, Says Sushma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By The Hindu &#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39226\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sushma-asserts-india-is-for-united-sri-lanka\/sushma-280\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39226\" title=\"sushma-280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sushma-280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabha Sushma Swaraj<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday that during her recent meeting with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa she discussed devolution of powers to provinces, as envisaged in the 13th Amendment to the island nation&#8217;s Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Swaraj, who led an all-party parliamentary delegation to Colombo for a first-hand assessment on the post-war situation in the country, told journalists here that she urged Mr. Rajapaksa to hold negotiations with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to resolve the grievances of Tamils.<\/p>\n<p>The Leader of the Opposition called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday evening and briefed him on the 12-member delegation&#8217;s six-day visit to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon and Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai were present during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTNA wants a negotiated settlement. Its members say they are proud Sri Lankans. They are against violence and stand for an undivided Sri Lanka. So we asked the government, what is the hitch? We made a fervent appeal to both parties \u2014 the Tamils and the government \u2014 for settling the issues,\u201d Ms. Swaraj said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rajapaksa told the delegation that he could only request the TNA and not force them to be part of the Parliamentary Select Committee which had been tasked to work out an acceptable solution to all stakeholders. Ms. Swaraj discussed the demand of the Tamil-dominated northern and eastern provinces for withdrawal of the Army.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come to birthday parties uninvited or enter temples,\u201d Tamils told the delegation members. She said the decision of India to vote in favour of the U.S.-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Commission was raised by Sri Lankan leaders. Colombo was upset with New Delhi for voting on the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Swaraj said the hosts were informed that the resolution only talked about the need for the Sri Lankan government to implement the recommendations of a commission appointed by its President.<\/p>\n<p>She said there was nothing extraordinary in the UNHRC resolution. It was pointed out that the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) \u201cis their baby\u201d and so they should go by its recommendations but \u201cthey had no answer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":39226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-from-foreign-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Discussed 13th Amendment, Says Sushma - 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\/discussed-13th-amendment-says-sushma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Discussed 13th Amendment, Says Sushma - 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