“ Attaching utmost importance to nurturing, intensifying and strengthening the traditional friendship of Sri Lanka and India, and acknowledging the imperative need of resolving the ethnic problem of Sri Lanka, and the consequent violence, and for the safety, wellbeing and prosperity of people belonging to all communities of Sri Lanka. ”

“ The eastern province should constitute a separate administrative unit having its own distinct provincial council with a separate Governor, Chief Minister and Board of Ministers. The president may, at his discretion, decide to postpone such a referendum. 2.4 All persons who have been displaced due to ethnic violence or other reasons, will have the right to vote in such a referendum. ”