Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the country should move forward while protecting the Sri Lankan solidarity as well as the different identities.
He said ‘we should be proud to be Sri Lankans and on the other hand we should be proud to be Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, or Christians.
The Government Information Center reported that the Premier had made these remarks upon addressing the 20th Commemoration Ceremony of the Former Speaker of the Sri Lanka Parliament, late Deshamanya M.A. Bakeer Markar, at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) yesterday (08).
The Government source also reported that the commemorative lecture on ‘Multiculturalism as a Basis for Peace’ had been delivered by the Former Prime Minister of Turkey, Professor Ahmet Davutoglu, who is currently visiting Sri Lanka.
Premier Wickremesinghe had said, “Sri Lanka as a single state has a long history of more than 2, 000 years, so we should go forward with that. If we are not utilizing that history at the time we live together, we will be the biggest traitors of this country.”
He had also added: “Even after the war, let us go through that journey together”.
He had further added that through the Constitution, they hoped to seek the possibility of providing rights to every citizen of the country without any belittlement whatsoever.
