In Sri Lanka, president announces plans to implement 13th amendment power-sharing arrangement

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will fully implement an earlier amendment to the constitution which was aimed at giving more autonomy to provinces in a bid to solve the island’s ethnic conflict. The 13 amendment which has been part of Sri Lanka’s constitution for 37 years is a solution which stops short of a Federal state. But it has not been fully implemented especially in terms of police and land powers. [...] “As the President I should implement it,” he was quoted as telling a meeting of political parties called on January 27. “If it is not implemented someone should bring another amendment and abolish it. We cannot stay on the fence saying we will not abolish it and we will not implement it.”
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