The new Sri Lankan government appointed governor to the Northern province, Reginold Cooray said mixed marriages between Tamils and Sinhalese people would be a way to reconciliation.
Commenting on Mr Cooray's remarks at an event in Jaffna where the Sri Lankan president was present, the chief minister of the Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran, said, "The governor of the northern province Reginold Cooray recently urged mixed marriages to occur for reconciliation. I would like to respond to this."
"I am not against mixed marriages. My children have married ethnic Sinhalese people."
"First however, ensure all rights to the Tamil people as the Sinhala people have, and then we can think of mixed marriages."
Mr Cooray is from the Sri Lankan Freedom Party, (SLFP).
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