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India asks Sri Lanka to boost reconciliation
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- India expects the newly-elected President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa to boost the national reconciliation policy with the Tamil community of the country, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.
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- Welcoming the Indian statement, Sri Lankan Tamil leaders have said this indicates India's desire to see the Tamils of the island nation as equal citizens of the country.
- The Indo-Lanka Accord (1987) is a subsisting bilateral agreement between the two countries, for the purpose of a long-lasting solution to the ethnic question
- It provided for meaningful power devolution to the Tamils. The previous Mahinda Rajapaksa administration assured India at least thrice in writing to fully implement the 13th Amendment and even go beyond it but did not deliver.
- India-Sri Lanka Peace Accord:
(1) Signed on 29th July 1987 in Colombo between the then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the then Sri Lankan President J R Jayewardene to bring the Sri Lankan civil war to an end.
(2) After this accord, Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) were sent to Sri Lanka to contain the Civil war and maintain peace and tranquillity.
Source
The Hindu