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President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told Chief
Editor, The Hindu, Mr. N. Ram that he is
"firmly committed to a just and enduring
political solution” to the Tamil question in
Sri Lanka and that "there are no military
solutions to political questions,” said a
news report in The Hindu today (17).
Reiterating the government's commitment to
sending essential food supplies to the
displaced in the Vanni, the newspaper quoted
the President saying “We are sending them
food. We are feeding the LTTE, in fact, we
know that 70 percent of the food sent by
the government goes to them.”
The Sri Lankan President will be sending
a special envoy to New Delhi in the near
future to explain the overall situation and
meet the concerns expressed by India, said
the news report.
Pointing out that the political solution
has to be given to the Tamil people, not to
the LTTE President Rajapaksa has said that
that he had entrusted the All Party
Representative Conference (APRC) with the
task of evolving a consensus among political
parties and democratic stakeholders in order
to find an acceptable solution to the ethnic
conflict.
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