Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has assured the country's Tamil leaders that he will discuss the release of political prisoners who are being held for up to 15 years with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
A delegation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Sri Lanka's main Tamil party, met the prime minister on Monday for a separate discussion on the prisoners issue after attending an all-party meeting convened by Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The all-parliamentarians meeting was boycotted by the Opposition's United National Party after the government rejected their seven suggestions, which included resuming Parliament to discuss issues related to the COVID-19.
The TNA was the only major Opposition party to attend the meeting.
TNA spokesman MA Sumanthiran on Tuesday said, "We took the opportunity to meet the prime minister. Our representatives from the north and east presented their problems region-wise."