UNP backs reforms package

By V. S. Sambandan

COLOMBO, JAN. 19. Sri Lanka's Opposition United National Party (UNP) has said that it would extend parliamentary support to the proposed constitutional reforms package, put forward by the Government to solve the ethnic crisis.

The dramatic offercomes in the backdrop of steps by the Government to introduce a cross-over bill in Parliament to push through with its peace package.

The ruling People's Alliance coalition could not go ahead with its reforms as it fell 16 votes short of a two-thirds majority in Parliament.

The offer came through a letter written by the Opposition Leader, Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe, to the Sri Lankan President, Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga.

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