In brief
Lifted
In Parliament on 8 October, Deputy Defence minister Anuruddha Ratwatte
announced the lifting of censorship on military news introduced in April.
Postponed
Local elections scheduled for June 1995 has been postponed for the third=
time
after municipal councils and other local government bodies were extended in=
late
October by President Chandrika under Emergency regulations up to 14 April
1997.=20
Died
Former Sri Lankan President JR Jayewardene, 90, died after a brief illness=
on 1
November. As leader of the United National Party (UNP), Mr Jayewardene
became Sri Lanka=92s first executive president under a new constitution=
introduced
in 1978.
Discussion
A cross-party group of 23 Sri Lankan MPs attended a five-day seminar in
Ballymena, Northern Ireland in mid-October. The meeting arranged by
London-based NGO International Alert discussed the Sri Lankan and Northern
Ireland conflicts.
No upheaval
In a written reply to a parliamentary question on 31 October, British Home=
Office
minister Ann Widdecombe says that continuing hostilities do not constitute a
fundamental change in the circumstances to justify declaring Sri Lanka as a
country of major upheaval.
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