{"id":76812,"date":"2018-04-26T03:37:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76812"},"modified":"2018-04-26T03:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:37:03","slug":"india-has-a-duty-to-ensure-full-implementation-of-the-1987-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/26\/india-has-a-duty-to-ensure-full-implementation-of-the-1987-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018India has a duty to ensure full implementation of the 1987 accord\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meera Srinivasan\u00a0Courtesy The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Tamils have no intention of dividing the country, says Sri Lanka\u2019s Leader of Opposition<\/p>\n

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The Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987 is still alive and it is India\u2019s duty to ensure that it is implemented in fullest spirit, said Sri Lanka\u2019s Leader of Opposition R. Sampanthan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Our journey continues, we need the accord, we need to ensure that the spirit of the accord is implement and India must do its duty to ensure the same. It is India\u2019s duty and India cannot get away from that duty,\u201d he said, speaking at the launch of\u00a0Or Inapprachanaiyum Or Oppandhamum<\/em>, a Tamil book authored by T. Ramakrishnan, an associate editor with\u00a0The Hindu<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We are not saying India alone can solve this, our demand is for a political solution evolved in this country, with the consensus and support of all the people of this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Referring to the Sri Lankan government\u2019s efforts to draft a new Constitution, currently stalled due to the ongoing political crisis between coalition partners, Mr. Sampanthan said that the position of the Tamil National Alliance is that the effort must continue and be completed. We need maximum devolution to exercise power without interference of the Centre\u2026 powers pertaining to people\u2019s everyday lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tamils have no intention of dividing the country but wanted to live with respect and dignity in an undivided country, where their rights are acknowledged, he added. He said if Sri Lanka\u2019s leaders failed to negotiate with all the people to evolve an acceptable political solution we will not hesitate to do what we must to get a just solution.<\/p>\n

Speaking earlier, A. Varadarajaperumal, former Chief Minister of the Tamil-speaking North-Eastern Province, which was earlier a united entity, spoke of the many contradictions\u201d among the diplomatic, bureaucratic and intelligence arms of the Indian establishment around the time the accord was signed which, he said, led to the failure\u201d of the Indian military contingent (IPKF)\u2019s intervention in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meera Srinivasan\u00a0Courtesy The Hindu Tamils have no intention of dividing the country, says Sri Lanka\u2019s Leader of Opposition The Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987 is still alive and it is India\u2019s duty to ensure that it is implemented in fullest spirit, said Sri Lanka\u2019s Leader of Opposition R. Sampanthan on Tuesday. Our journey continues, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}