Kumaratunga's trump card has been to offer the Tamils regional autonomy in the north and east.
Although many support the idea of greater regional autonomy, they also fear Baganda dominance.
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Regional Autonomy Watch, a pro-business lobbying group, tracks the many new money-making schemes cooked up by local governments.
The majority Sunni Arabs are unlikely to concede to demands for regional autonomy.
This sluggishness comes despite evidence that addressing the problems is more than worth the trouble (especially so with the approaching introduction of regional autonomy, when the country's 180-plus districts will have to survive on their own revenues).
To someone living in the west of England, as I do, or in the north, Westminster and Whitehall are every bit as remote as Brussels, and one could argue strongly for a European state, with enhanced regional autonomy.
And as long as local health authorities retain their autonomy, regional variations in provision will persist.
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Toyota's president said he is putting new auto plants on hold for three years and reshaping the automaker's structure to give more autonomy to regional divisions and foreign executives.
Catalonia's autonomy statute gives the regional authority - the Generalitat - broad powers of self-government within Spain, especially on matters such as culture, education, health, transport, public safety and commerce.
Morocco is now proceeding with a plan for a regional authority to be set up as a step towards autonomy.
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The Welsh will have less autonomy (see article), somewhere between the power of a French regional council and a Spanish regional government.
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"It's important to highlight that it's not been decided that the (27 regional) Councils of Medicine are favourable to abortion, instead it's the autonomy of women and doctors, " the president of the FCM, Roberto Luiz D'Avila, wrote on the statement.
This renewal is centred on Erbil, the seat of the regional government which has, from well before the overthrow of Saddam, steered a delicate path towards autonomy and economic development.
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