{"id":54413,"date":"2012-09-18T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T08:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=54413"},"modified":"2012-09-19T20:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T20:43:56","slug":"commitments-made-must-be-implemented-before-attending-the-psc-tna-to-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/commitments-made-must-be-implemented-before-attending-the-psc-tna-to-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Commitments Made Must Be Implemented Before Attending The PSC \u2013 TNA To Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TNA leader R. Sampanthan asked President Mahinda Rajapaksa to appoint a civilian as Governor of the Northern and Eastern provinces. TNA leader met the president this morning at the Presidents House to discuss the issues related to Eastern elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-full-implementation-of-the-thirteenth-amendmentwhat-can-be-done\/mahinda_sampanthan1-colombotelegraph\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4489 alignright\" title=\"mahinda_sampanthan1 colombotelegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mahinda_sampanthan1-colombotelegraph-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mahinda_sampanthan1-colombotelegraph-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/mahinda_sampanthan1-colombotelegraph.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Responding to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=R.+Sampanthan&amp;x=13&amp;y=6\">Smapnathan<\/a><\/span>\u2019s request <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\">Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> asked Sampanthan to attend the Parliamentary Select Committee and raised the matter. Sambanthan responded by stating that the TNA has never taken up the position that it will not attend the PSC, but has only insisted that commitments made must be implemented before attending the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Parliamentary+Select+Committee&amp;x=10&amp;y=2\">Parliamentary Select Committee<\/a><\/span> sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TNA-Statement-18th-Sep.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span> to read TNA leader\u2019s official statement after the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[4863,4862,4860,4861],"class_list":["post-54413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","tag-eastern-province-election-and-tn-and-rajapaksa-meeting","tag-governor-of-the-northern-and-eastern-provinces-sri-lanka","tag-tna-leader-r-sampanthan-meets-president-mahinda-rajapaksa","tag-tna-on-parliamentary-select-committee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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