By Dasun Edirisinghe

Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa said that parties in the joint opposition will consider withdrawing from the All Party Conference (APC) called by President Maithripala Sirisena if the government was not prepared to take decisions on reconciliation and accountability issues based on the APC resolutions.

Addressing the media at the N. M. Perera Centre in Borella, the National Freedom Front Leader said that the UNP government, especially Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera had plunged the country into a difficult situation by jointly sponsoring the US resolution in Genera against Sri Lanka.

“If President Sirisena really wants to rectify the mistakes the government made in Geneva, we will support it and that is why we participated in the APC,” Weerawansa said, adding that the government was trying to use the APC to apportion the blame for the Geneva blunder to all political parties.

He said they would not participate at the next APC meeting if the government failed to take a decision based on APC deliberations in the future.

Former Foreign Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris said the government had supported the US-based resolution against Sri Lanka in violation of the country’s Constitution without consulting any party in the Opposition.

He said the President had merely called an APC to show the world that all parties supported his government’s decisions.

Meanwhile, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) led by Colombo District MP Udaya Gammanpila yesterday also announced that they had decided to quit the APC.

He has informed the President of that decision, he said.

Gammanpila said however they would support the APC in the future if it came back to the correct path.

Courtesy:The Island