Gotabaya for reconciliation through domestic institutions
The Hindu
It is essential to achieve lasting peace in Sri Lanka, he says
A meaningful reconciliation with the Tamil community through domestic institutions is essential to achieve lasting peace in Sri Lanka, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said. Addressing the high-level UN General Debate here on Wednesday, he stressed that his government was ready to engage with all stakeholders and to obtain the support of its international partners in the process.
In 2019, Sri Lanka experienced the devastation wrought by extremist religious terrorists in the. “Before that, until 2009” the country “had suffered from a separatist terrorist war for 30 years, he said, referring to the conflict with the LTTE.
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