President stresses viable political solution for Tamil people

President stresses viable political solution for Tamil people

SRI LANKA-In an interview by the Editor in Chief of the Hindu newspaper, N. Ram Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he would rather help draw up a political solution to the Tamil people than to the LTTE terrorist outfit. "What is the use of giving a solution to terrorists? They are not giving up terrorism," he told Editor Ram in the interview carried as the lead story of the newspaper's print edition as well as its web edition .

"I am firmly committed to a just and enduring political solution" to the situation in Sri Lanka and "am clear that there are no military solutions to political questions," President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the editor in a telephonic conversation from Colombo on Thursday(Oct 16) morning. source-defence.lk