07/29/2011
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BBC
Sri Lanka's opposition leader says no war crimes charges can be brought against Sri Lanka as the country is not a party to Rome Protocol on crimes against humanity.
03/10/2011
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Daily Mirror
LTTE Arms Procurer KP should be extradited to India if requested for legal cases pending in that country, UNP said in Parliament yesterday.
01/06/2011
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Daily Mirror
The government yesterday objected to UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s proposal to send an all party delegation headed by the Speaker to Jaffna, for a fact finding mission on the security situation in the area.
07/31/2010
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ColomboPage
July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to meet Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe for extensive talks. The discussion will be held in the President's official residence Temple Trees on Tuesday, August 03.
07/13/2010
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Reuters
(Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president and opposition leader have struck a broad deal on constitutional changes, chief of which is a plan to return the Indian Ocean island nation to leadership by an executive prime minister.
07/13/2010
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Sunday Leader
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Peoples Alliance and Ranil Wickremesinghe’s main opposition UNP have agreed, in principle, to alter the Constitution to create an Executive Prime Minister post. In 1978, J.R. Jayawardene used his majority to replace a British-style Parliamentary system with a French-style Parliament plus Executive Presidency. Now it seems that Mahinda is using his majority to return to a Parliamentary system and create a powerful Prime Minister’s post which he could occupy, without term limits, as long as he has party support.
07/11/2010
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Sunday Times
President Mahinda Rajapaksa will abandon moves to amend the Constitution to enable him to contest any number of times for this post. Instead, he has agreed ‘in principle’ to create the office of an Executive Prime Minister.