A UNP led government will not seek a political solution to the ethnic conflict beyond the 13th Amendment, said UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday.
Speaking to journalists after a meeting with the leader of the Janasetha Peramuna (or People's Welfare Front), the Buddhist monk Battaramulle Seela Rathana, Wickremesinghe said sticking within the 13th Amendment, ensuring good relations with all other states and ensuring the independence of the judiciary, police and elections commission, would be the principles guiding a UNP lead government.
Wickremesinghe had met with Seela Rathana in order to discuss the possibility of the Janasetha Peramuna endorsing a UNP presidential candidate running on a common platform.
Seela Rathana said his party would discuss the UNP's proposal carefully before making a decision, the Daily Mirror reports.
"The UNP, in the near future, would talk to other political parties, religious leaders and civic organizations in the effort to agree on a common candidate from the UNP," Ceylon Today reported Wickremesinghe as saying.
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