No room for ethnic-based clashes in the country - President

Thursday, 20 September 2018 - 21:11

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President Maithripala Sirisena has said that there would be no room for ethnic-based conflicts in the country and added that the government would work towards providing the people of the North and East their rights to developing.

The President made this statement in Trincomalee today.

He pointed out that if previous governments had distributed the development programmes equally to all parts of the country, there would not have been any problems.


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