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| Early setbacks to PA-JVP alliance through MoU by Ranga Jayasuriya Disagreements over the solution to the ethnic problem seem to be making early setbacks on the proposed PA-JVP alliance. But JVP sources said the two parties were likely to strike the final deal on the proposed alliance at a meeting scheduled on Thursday. The PA and the JVP delegations will meet on Thursday in another round of talks aimed at an alliance between the two main opposition actors. PA stalwart Mangala Samaraweera earlier expressed hopes that the two parties will seal the final deal on a memorandum of understanding of the alliance by the end of March. "We hope that talks scheduled for Thursday will produce a significant outcome," JVP Parliamentarian Anura Dissanayake said adding that the two parties will sort out the prevailing disagreements over the nature of the solution to the ethnic problem. Both the PA and the JVP had agreed that the talks with the LTTE should continue even after the PA and the JVP form a government. But the PA sources said President Kumaratunga had warned the JVP that the PA would abandon talks, if the JVP does not give up its opposition to the PA proposals for a solution to the ethnic problem. The PA suggests year 2000 draft constitution rejected by the JVP and the then main opposition UNP as the framework on which the negotiations for a solution to the ethnic problem can be held. The JVP disagrees with the PA proposals and says the talks with the LTTE should be "conditional". The proposed alliance with the JVP has already irked the PA's left with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and the Communist Party(CP) having calling for a change in the JVP's anti-peace stance as a pre-requisite for the proposed alliance. The LSSP and the CP boycotted the protest rally held on March 10 organised by the SLFP and the JVP led "the opposition movement to defend the motherland". |
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