Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has denied agreeing to giving "full autonomy" to the Tamil regions of the island.
An Indian news channel, NDTV, on Sunday tweeted that Prime Minister Wickremesinghe had told them “in principle, we have agreed to full autonomy to Tamil areas".
Sri Lanka's The Nation newspaper contacted Mr Wickremesinghe after the tweet which it termed as 'controversial', was posted, to verify whether he had made such statement.
‘No, no, no...What I said was that I am for the implementation of the 13th Amendment and that I am for the unitary state,” Prime Minister Wickremesinghe told the paper.
The Nation accused NDTV of deliberately distorting the prime minister's statement on this "highly sensitive matter to all Sri Lankans".
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