President convenes All-Party Conference today

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has convened an All-Party Conference today at 4 p.m. at the Presidential Secretariat.

All party leaders representing the Parliament will attend the meeting chaired by Wickremesinghe.



“The purpose of this conference is to come to a consensus and strengthen national harmony,” the President’s Media Office said.

It said the Speaker, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, as well as former presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena, Tamil National Alliance Leader R. Sampanthan, National People’s Force Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and all party leaders representing Parliament have been invited.

Following Wickremesinghe’s appointment as President, a meeting of party leaders was called on 13 December where the program to improve national harmony was discussed. During this meeting of party leaders, it is expected to discuss these issues further and reach an agreement among them.