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Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 6.18 GMT

Tamils' welfare looked after by SL
- Karunanidhi

 
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said in a statement that efforts were being made [by Sri Lanka] for the welfare of Tamils and that President Rajapaksa’s assurance to the MPs that a settlement, acceptable to all sections, would be found.

The statement was made when the 10-member delegation of MPs from Tamil Nadu met the Chief Minister after returning from their visit to Sri Lanka.

Chief Minister had further commented that 58,000 internally-displaced persons will be sent back to their native places in 15 days while the remaining IDPs will be returned gradually.

The Tamil Nadu government had requested the Union government to help Sri Lanka with the de-mining operations so that resettlement process would speed up.

To a question whether Sinhalese would be settled in areas where Tamils lived traditionally, the Chief Minister said President Mahinda Rajapaksa had denied that such a thing would happen, reported the Hindu.








 
 
   
   
   
   
   

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