Fri, Oct 7, 2011, 07:49 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Oct 07, Colombo: Sri Lanka's major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says that the political solution to resolve the ethnic issue should be acceptable to the Muslim community as well.TNA Leader R. Sampanthan said that the alliance was committed to evolving an acceptable solution that will be just and equitable to all the people living in the North and East.
Issuing a statement, Sampanthan has said the TNA was particularly conscious of the concerns of "our Muslim brethren".
"It would be our endeavor to ensure that any solution would also be as acceptable to our Muslim brethren as it would be to the Tamil people," he has said.
Sampanthan has added that after the conclusion of the war and the devastating consequences thereof, the need for an acceptable negotiated political solution to the National Question has assumed an unprecedented importance in all relevant places.
"Other issues vital to the country's future well-being are linked to an acceptable resolution of the National Question," Sampanthan has noted.
