In 1994 the newly-elected People's Alliance of Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga initiated another round of talks.
But the government of Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka's president, is split on the issue.
Like his predecessor, Chandrika Kumaratunga, he comes from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).
Chandrika Kumaratunga was overwhelmingly elected president of Sri Lanka on the campaign pledge that she would bring peace.
The opportunity to act is now because there is a Sri Lankan President totally committed to peace, Chandrika Kumaratunga.
Lanka have sent a mixed message to President Chandrika Kumaratunga's ruling People's Alliance.
In Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga said a presidential election would be held soon, several months ahead of schedule.
Chandrika Kumaratunga lost her re-election bid as president of Sri Lanka, and Yulia Tymoshenko lost her bid to help run the Ukraine.
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga, the current chair of SAARC, had an early chance to practice her diplomacy: "innovative, " she declared Sharif's proposal.
The constitutional changes have been proposed by the government of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who wants to build a broad multi-ethnic consensus behind the new bill.
Clearly, Chandrika Kumaratunga still has many more cards left to play.
In Sri Lanka , President Chandrika Kumaratunga lost her parliamentary majority.
Some, like Sri Lanka's president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, have followed their mothers.
Bandaranaike is the mother of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who herself survived a suicide assassination attempt Dec. 18, just days before narrowly winning a second six-year term.
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In Sri Lanka, the measure has been hailed in pro-government newspapers as a diplomatic triumph for President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who has not had much success lately.
The People's Alliance of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, whose job was not at stake, remains the largest grouping, though its share of the 225-seat parliament has apparently shrunk slightly.
On February 7th, Chandrika Kumaratunga used her powers as president to announce the dissolution of parliament and, a few days later, to sack 39 junior ministers to prevent them using their jobs for electoral advantage.
Until now, President Chandrika Kumaratunga's strategy has been to push for a military solution while contemplating a constitutional reform that would provide the Tamil minority with more autonomy in the north and east of the country.
After securing 194 of the 238 local councils contested in the polls, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka's president, described the results as a renewed mandate for her to push ahead with proposals to grant limited autonomy to Tamils living in the war-afflicted north and east of the island.
Beyond the archipelago, her ability to overcome force without resorting to violence made her a role model for an ever-lengthening line of women leaders--Violeta Chamorro, Benazir Bhutto, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Khaleda Zia, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Aung San Suu Kyi--who, like her, were thrust into public life by the violent fates that befell husbands and fathers.
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