COLOMBO, May 23: The Muslim Peace Secretariat has been left out of Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s plan to set up a joint tsunami relief mechanism with the Tamil Tigers, according to the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress. Hassen Ali, the SLMC secretary, said on Monday that despite his leader Rauff Hakeem’s meeting with President Kumaratunga, the government had yet to give details of the proposed mechanism to his party. He said the Muslim Peace Secretariat’s concerns regarding the mechanism’s impact on Muslim-dominated areas had not been considered. A joint mechanism for tsunami relief work was proposed by the international donors.
