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Date: Thursday, 23 May 2013

13A to stay
The government yesterday rejected the call for the abolition of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution by its coalition partners, the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) and the National Freedom Front (NFF), and confirmed the 13th Amendment will not be amended.
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