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Sri Lankan panel to draft solution

V.S. Sambandan

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Tuesday appointed a 12-member committee to draft a solution to the decades-long separatist conflict.

The committee will serve in "an advisory capacity" to the all-party committee which is to be appointed to "work out the formalities for a lasting solution to the ethnic conflict," a Government release said. The appointment is a direct outcome of the fifth all party conference chaired by the President recently.

The committee "selected from various fields" includes leading legal names such as H.L. de Silva, Faisz Mustapha, R.K.W. Gunasekera, Sivaji Felix, constitutional expert, Rohan Perera, the legal adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secretary to the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs as the convenor.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera on Monday said the Government was "still committed to the peace process with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam".

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