SLDF Statements

14 October 2007, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Progress with the Political Process and the Nexus of Human Rights, Democratization, Reconstruction and a Permanent Political Solution

8 September 2007, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Calls for Urgent Progress with the APRC Process

24 June 2007, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Calls on Sri Lanka Donor Co-Chairs and India to Pressure Sri Lanka on a Just Political Solution and Human Rights Protection

5 May 2007, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLFP Proposals - An affront to Tamil and Muslim Aspirations and Failure of Leadership

6 March 2007, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Representations made to Sri Lanka Foreign Minister

22 January 2007, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Calls for Progress with the Political Solution

6 September 2006, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Calls on Sri Lanka Donor Co-Chairs and India to Pressure the Sri Lankan State to Address Human Rights and Humanitarian Concerns and Progress on a Political Settlement 

6 June 2006, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Condemns JVP and PNM Opportunism - a Grave Impediment to a Political Solution

23 May 2006, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Calls on Sri Lanka Donor Co-Chairs to Pressure the Government of Sri Lanka to End Extrajudicial Killings and Move on State Reform

18 April 2006, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Condemns the LTTE's Undeclared War and Calls on the Government to Protect Human Rights and Progress Towards a Permanent Political Solution

15 December 2005, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Calls on Donor Co-Chairs to Push for a Southern Consensus on a Permanent Political Solution and Reform of the Sri Lankan State

15 September 2005, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SLDF Calls on Sri Lanka Donor Co-Chairs to Support a Redesign of the Peace Process

29 June 2003, London 2003 Resolutions

 

 

This is the Political Solution Campaign Page of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum.

SLDF has campaigned for a Political Solution and State Reform in Sri Lanka. On this page SLDF documents as well as recommended reading relating to a Political Solution and State Reform in Sri Lanka will be compiled.

 

Important Documents and Proposals

Proposal for the Political Solution to the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, March 2007

Proposal of Prof. Tissa Vitarana, All Party Representative Committee (APRC) Chairman, January 2007

Experts Committee to the All Party Conference (APC) Majority Report, December 2006

Policy Paper: Peace Process and Constitutional Reform - Constitutional Affairs Committee of The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, July 2006

 

 

Historical Documents

‘Devolution Proposals' Text of Sri Lanka Proposal for Devolution - President Chandrika Kumaratunga, August 1995

Mangala Moonesinghe Parliamentary Select Committee Interim Report 1992

The Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, July 1987

Dudley Senanayake - Chelvanayakam Pact, March 1965

Bandaranayake - Chelvanayakam Pact, July 1957

 

 

Commentary on Political Solution

Introduction to 'A Glimmer of Hope' - Sumanasiri Liyanage, March 2007

Sri Lanka on the Precipice: Political Solution or Sweeping Debacle? - Ahilan Kadirgamar, February 2007

Articles on Comparative Constitutionalism and Constitutional Reform in Sri Lanka - Nisala Rodrigo, May - November 2006

Federalism and the Political System in India - Prakash Karat, September 2004

Trying times: Constitutional attempts to resolve armed conflict in Sri Lanka - Rohan Edrisinha, August 1998

 

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