Sri Lanka leader urges new parliament to provide reforms for ethnic harmony

By Yahoo News, 2 September 2015
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, listens to former president Mahinda Rajapaksa after the first meeting of the members of parliament since the election on Aug. 17, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 [photo credit: AP]
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, right, listens to former president Mahinda Rajapaksa after the first meeting of the members of parliament since the election on Aug. 17, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 [photo credit: AP]
<p>Sri Lanka's president asked the country's newly elected lawmakers on Tuesday to draft political reforms to promote ethnic reconciliation and economic development in the post-war era.</p><div></div><div> <p>President Maithripala Sirisena said the new parliament's responsibilities are to make the political decisions that had been delayed and to draft reforms. He has previously acknowledged that Sri Lanka has failed to heal its deep ethnic divide since the civil war ended six years ago.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 20.4px;">The speech was Sirisena's inaugural address to the 225-member parliament at its first meeting since the election on Aug. 17.</span></p>
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