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PCoI report: Harin wants soft copies; Kiriella says it’s too late, and of no use
By Saman Indrajith
SJB MP Harin Fernando, speaking in Parliament, yesterday called on the government to provide soft copies of all the volumes of the final report by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Sunday carnage.
The MP said so when the Speaker announced that all the volumes he had received from the Presidential Secretariat on the previous day were placed at the parliamentary library for the perusal of the MPs.
MP Fernando said that the PCoI report received by Parliament had over 69,800 pages. “It is practically a time consuming process to get a copy for each MP. It is better if we can get a succinct version of this report or either a soft copy for our perusal,” the MP said.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said that he had been given all the volumes of the report by the Director General of Legal Affairs of the Presidential Secretariat Harigupta Rohanadheera and all the documents were thereafter sent to Parliament library.
Chief Opposition Whip Kandy District MP Lakshman Kiriella it was of little use getting the report after some of the cases had been completed and those indicted had been acquitted and released. “There is no use of giving us these witnesses’ accounts now. They should have been given earlier so that the MPs could have debated those facts here in Parliament and expressed their standpoints,” Kiriella said.
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Justice, Prisons Affairs and Constitutional Reforms to establish a new Commercial High Court to ensure expeditious disposal of the existing backlog of commercial matters.
The new Commercial High Court will be established at No.80, Justice Avenue, Colombo 12
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The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the President in his capacity as the Minister of Defense to make arrangements to regulate chemicals that could be misused, and to transfer the said regulatory role to the National Authority for the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Among the large number of different chemicals that are used in the country for peaceful purposes such as industrial, agricultural, medical and research activities it has been observed that among those chemicals, chemicals like Nitric acid, Chlorine, Hydrogen Peroxide, Potassium Cyanide, sodium cyanide, Nitro Methane and Sodium Azide are of dual use nature which can be used in many different industries such as milk, beverages, oil-related industries, water purification etc. can be used for harmful activities that threaten national security.
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