April 4, 2013, 11:21 pm
by Zacki Jabbar
The government yesterday set a 18-month time frame to implement the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recommendations.
Power and Energy Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, addressing the Cabinet press briefing in Colombo, in the absence of Cabinet spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who has gone abroad, claimed that many of the LLRC recommendations had already been addressed and the others would be implemented within the next one and a half years.
He said that the LLRC Report had come up for discussion at yesterday’s Cabinet meeting. It had been decided that many of the proposals could be implemented by the respective ministries.
The resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons, rehabilitation of LTTE cadres and many other steps aimed at reconciliation had been completed to a great extent, the Minister said adding that criticism of the government in this regard was unwarranted.
The recent adoption of the US Resolution on Accountability and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka, by the UNHRC, had nothing to with a time frame being set for the implementation of the LLRC Report, he noted.
Rejecting a recent statement by the former Army Commander, General Sarath Fonseka, that ninety percent of the ruling UPFA MP’s would defect, if they were certain of forming an alternate administration, Yapa said that no such thing would happen.
island.lk
by Zacki Jabbar
The government yesterday set a 18-month time frame to implement the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recommendations.
Power and Energy Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, addressing the Cabinet press briefing in Colombo, in the absence of Cabinet spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who has gone abroad, claimed that many of the LLRC recommendations had already been addressed and the others would be implemented within the next one and a half years.
He said that the LLRC Report had come up for discussion at yesterday’s Cabinet meeting. It had been decided that many of the proposals could be implemented by the respective ministries.
The resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons, rehabilitation of LTTE cadres and many other steps aimed at reconciliation had been completed to a great extent, the Minister said adding that criticism of the government in this regard was unwarranted.
The recent adoption of the US Resolution on Accountability and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka, by the UNHRC, had nothing to with a time frame being set for the implementation of the LLRC Report, he noted.
Rejecting a recent statement by the former Army Commander, General Sarath Fonseka, that ninety percent of the ruling UPFA MP’s would defect, if they were certain of forming an alternate administration, Yapa said that no such thing would happen.
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