Negotiations on the Indo-Sri Lanka Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement or ETCA and Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between India and Sri Lanka or CEPA, have once again come to the fore. This forum is for you to study about CEPA/ETCA.
- 06-10-2003 – Institute of policy studies of sri lanka JSG report on CEPA
- 28-06-2015 – NEWS.LK – Govt. to establish an Emergency Ambulance Health Protection Service
- 13-09-2015 – දිවයින – සීපා?
- 15-09-2015 – Newsfirst – India towards setting up of, and operation of, emergency ambulance service in Sri Lanka
- 15-09-2015 – Lanka Business Online – Sri Lanka and India to sign a new trade agreement in 2016
- PM’s visit to India
- 17-09-2015 – Daily FT – Sri Lanka pitches for inking CEPA by next year
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17-09-2015 – Daily FT – India to supply of medical equipment to district hospital in Vavuniya, establishment of emergency ambulance services in Sri Lanka
- 18-09-2015 – Newsfirst – Two million Indians reply to ad for 300 clerical jobs
- 18-09-2015 – Neth FM – සීපා එපා – අගමැති කියයි
- Ada Derana Interview – Watch
- CEPA handout of Sri Lanka Engineers Association – Read
- 19-09-2015 – GMOA CEPA memo – Download
- 19-09-2015 – NEWS.LK – Government never discussed CEPA with India
- 22-10-2015 – UNITED PROFESSIONALS’ MOVEMENT (UPM)
UPM is a forum consists of all Professional Associations of Sri Lanka:
1. Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA)
2. Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BAR)
3. Sri Lankan Engineers’ Association (SLEA)
4. Chartered Institute of Management Accounts – Sri Lanka (CIMA)
5. Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL)
6. Institute of Applied Statistics – Sri Lanka
7. Institute of Personal Management – Sri Lanka
8. Institute of Incorporated Engineers
9. Organization of Professional Association of Sri Lanka (OPA)
10. Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA)
11. The Institute of Engineers – Sri Lanka (IESL)UPM Objectives:
1. Insist Government to get professionals involved in policy development process of International Trade Agreements.
2. To formulate House rules, regulations and policies for all professions in Sri Lanka
3. Force Government to make Indo-Sri Lanka Cooperative Agreements, public.
- 26-10-2015 – Daily Mirror – The Indian High Commissioner’s speech at the Annual Research Symposium 2015 held at the Colombo University
- GMOA CEPA Memo Download
- GMOA CEPA Presentation Download
- Dr. Harsha De Silva Interview: Emergency Ambulance Service
- 05-11-2015 – Workshop for Trade Unions in Health Sector on Bilateral International Trade Agreements
- 08-11-2015 – The Sunday Leader – ETCA instead of CEPA?
- 09-11-2015 – United Professionals Movement (UPM) – Press Conference 09-11-2015
- 11-11-2015 – දිවයින – ගිලන් රථ කුමන්ත්රණයක් ගැන පාදෙනිය කියයි
- 14-11-2015 – රිවිර – ගිලන් රථ සේවාවේ කොටසක් ඉන්දියානු සමාගමකට
- 16-11-2015 – රවිර – ඉන්දියාව එක්ක ගහන ගිවිසුම් මෙරට වෘත්තිකයන්ට ඉතා හානි කර විය හැකි
- 08-11-2015 – Hon. Prime Ministers Response to UPM request Letter
- Mr. T.M.K.B. Tennekoon, Secretary, Ministry of Industry & Commerce Response to UPM request Letter
- 23-11-2015 – Daily News – GMOA requests TUs to educate membership on CEPA/ETCA
- 07-12-2015 – Letter to Secretary to Ministry of Industry and Commerce (From UPM)
- 08-12-2015 – Daily Mirror – CEPA comes as ETCA, Says GMOA
- 09-12-2015 – Letter to Secretary to Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade (From UPM)
- 09-12-2015 – Hon. PM’s Speech
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Workshop done by SLEA – watch
Eng. Palitha Abeywardena
Dr. (Eng.) Ananda Ranasighe
Eng. Suran Fernando
Eng. Gamini Gunawardena
Eng. Kushan Jayasuriya
- SLEA Public Forum on CEPA – Panel Discussion
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11-12-2015 – Letter to President and Councils of All Medical Professional Organizations Re: PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN SRI LANKA AND INDIA
Letter to Presidents and Councils of All Medical Professional Organizations,
Re: PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN SRI LANKA AND INDIA
- Letter to Presidents and Councils of All Medical Professional Organizations Download
- Annexure – I Invitation
- Annexure – II Hon. Prime Minister- Speech 23.09.2015
- Annexure – III Services Schedules under the proposed Comprehensive Framework for Cooperation between Sri Lanka and India
- 13-12-2015 – GMOA Leaflet: Indo – Sri Lanka Goods and Services trading agreement Download
Special Report : Why Indian’s Medical School are plagued with fraud – Watch
- GMOA presentation – ETCA (new) : Download or Click Here
- 23-12-2015 – The Island – India, Sri Lanka Discuss ETCA
- 29-12-2015 – දිවයින – GMOA discussion with Minister Malik Samarawikrama
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30-12-2015 – Ceylon Today – Ensure win-win situation or Stay away from ETCA
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02-01-2016 – ලංකාදීප – ETCA in this year says Hon. Minister Malik Samarawikrama
- 04-01-2016 – Letter to His Excellency the President Maithripala Sirisena – The need of “A National Policy for International Goods & Servicers Trading Agreements.” Sinhala Tamil English
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News 1st (05-01-2016)
- 06-01-2016 – The Island – GMOA tells Prez to delay inking of Indo-Lanka pact
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06-01-2016 – ලංකාදීප – ජාත්යන්තර වෙළද ගිවිසුම් ගැන ජාතික ප්රතිපතියක් නැත
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06-01-2016 – News 1st – Sri Lanka Pakistan FTA includes trade in services – Hon. PM Pakistan
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13-01-2016 – Ada Derana
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12-01-2016 – Second Letter to Presidents and Councils of All Medical Professional Organizations
- 16-01-2016 – GMOA Leaflet: The need of A National Policy for International Trade Agreements Download
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16-01-2016 – දිවයින – අකමැති වුනත් කරන්න දෙයක් නෑ, පිටරටවලින් විශේෂඥය වෛද්යවරු ගෙන්වනවා
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18-01-2016 – News First
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19-01-2016 – News First
- 23-01-2016 – Ada Derana
Dr. Dayan Rajapaksha MBBS(Col)
President of The Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL)
The founder of ESOFT Computer Studies (Pvt) Ltd and now he is the Chairman and Managing Director of the ESOFT Group.
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25-01-2016 – Mirror Citizen – No Agreement with India in February – Malik
- 26-01-2016 – Follow up to the Professional Association’s meetings on Indo – Sri Lanka Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement – Page 1 Page 2
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28-01-2016 – News First – PM Wickremesinghe stands firm on decision to sign FTAs with India and other nations
- 29-01-2016 – Colombo Today – ඉන්දියානුවන්ට දොර ඇරියොත් රටම අනාථයි – ඒකාබද්ධ ඉංජිනේරු සංවිධානයෙන් නිවේදනයක්
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Sri Lanka IT BPM Country Profile 2014
- 29-01-2016 – GMOA Press Conference – Dr. Nalinda Herath
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29-01-2016 – GMOA Press Conference – Dr. Nalinda Herath – Q & A
- 31-01-2016 – The Island – Proposed economic agreement with India: Lessons from the recent past
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02-02-2016 – Leaflet campaign of Organisation of Engineers’ Associations – OEA Press Release Visit
- 03-02-2016 – Ceylon Today – PM is to go ahead with Indo Sri lanka ETCA undeterred
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03-02-2016 – Daily Mirror – ETCA: Why so hush-hush?
- 03-02-2016 – Colombo Today – ලංකාවේ රැකියාවට ඉන්දියානුවන් එනවාට විරුද්ධ වන්නේ ජාතිවාදීන් – විදේශ ඇමති මංගල
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o4-02-2016 – Ceylon Today – What’s next?
- 05-02-2016 – දිවයින – ඉන්දීය ශ්රී ලංකා සේවා ගිවිසුමෙන් ඉන්දියාවේ වෘත්තිකයන් ශ්රී ලංකාව ආක්රමණය නැවැත්විය නොහැකිවෙයි
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05-02-2016 – “If no National Policy; No ETCA”
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06-02-2016 – GMOA ETCA Presentation (Updated 02-02-2016) – Download
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Neth FM Discussion on CEPA – Prof. Rohan Samarajiva & Eng. R.C.Dassanayaka
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Serious Economist/Illuminati Deshal De Mel talks CEPA/ETCA (http://www.yamu.lk/ectacepa-faq/) and how it’ll affect the Sri Lankan IT industry
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08-02-2016 – The Island – SL-India Joint Commission: Contentious FTA, ECTA on agenda
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08-02-2016 – News 1st
- 08-02-2016 – Third Letter to Medical Professional Organizations
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09-02-2016 – ETCA Rally – Dr Anuruddha Padeniya
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09-02-2016 – ETCA Rally – Eng Gamini Gunawardena :
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11-02-2016 – All Professionals are rally against ETCA – Photo Gallery – Visit
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11-02-2016 – Cabinet Paper on Free Ambulance Service and Paper Advertisement
- 14-02-2016 – ඉරිදා දිවයින – ඉට්කා ලංකාව හසුවන ඉන්දියානු උගුල
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15-02-2016 – Daily FT – Govt. should exercise caution in opening door to Indian IT professionals: CSSL
- 15-02-2016 – Daily FT – GMOA setting an example of how websites should be operated”
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16-02-2016 – Colombo Today – “මිනිස්සුන්ට සල්ලි දීල ඉන්දියාවට විරුද්ධව උද්ඝෝෂණ කරාට වැඩක් වෙන්නේ නෑ“ – අගමැති
- 17-02-2016 – Derana TV – අලුත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව
- 19-02-2016 – Ada Derana – Dr. Harsha De Silva
- 19-02-2016 – වෘත්තිකයෝ සටන අතට ගනී
Eng. Gamini Gunawardena
Archi. D. H. Wijewardena
Mr. Nishantha Wickramasingha
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GMOA Leaflet – ඉන්දියානු සමාගමක් මගින් ශ්රීලංකාව තුල ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට නියමිත හදිසි පුර්ව රෝහල් ප්රතිකාර ගිලන්රථ සේවාව පිලිබඳව – Download
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19-02-2016 – Ada Derana – GMOA’s Padeniya has no right to talk about IT – Harin
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21-03-2016- The Island – PM frowns on ‘traitors’ blocking ETCA, reveals fresh Chinese investment in Hambantota – Prof. Peiris warns of a Trojan horse
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23-02-2016 – Indo- Sri Lanka ETCFA – DRAFT proposal by Sri Lanka – English / Sinhala
- 25-02-2016 – Even President Sirisena has not seen the ETCA draft – Dr. Padeniya
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27-02-2016 – Daily Mirror – ETCA hush-hush fuels doubts
- 28-03-2014 – India-US fight over short-term service providers escalates
- 28-02-2016 – Business Times – ETCA vs CEPA: Fear of the unknown
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29-02-2016 – Dr Haritha Aluthge ETCA and Ambulance Service
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29-02-2016 – රිවිර – ගිවිසුම්වලට යනවා නම් යා යුත්තේ ඉන්දියාවට ඕන විදියට නොවෙයි – තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ වෘත්තීයවේදී සංගමයේ ලේකම් ලසන්ත වික්රමසිංහ
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01-03-2016 – Loophole In SL Government’s Draft Indo-Lanka Pact Worries Professionals – Dr. Senal Fernando
- 01-03-2016 – The Island
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01-03-2016 – The Island – ETCA – Turning India from threat to opportunity
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02-03-2016 – Mirror Business – ETCA will cause no harm to local industries: State Min.
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02-03-2016 – The Island – Doctors’ unions make common cause to defeat ETCA
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02-03-2016 – The Island – ETCA: Indian technocrats here to educate Lankan businessmen on their requirements
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02-03-2016 – Daily News
- 04-03-2016 – The New Indian Express – Indian Envoy Rebuts ‘Misconceptions And Canards’ About Economic Pact
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Study INDIAN FOREIGN TRADE POLICY (1st April, 2015 to 31st March, 2020)
- 03-03-2016 – Dr. Haritha Aluthge
- 06-03-3016 – Hiru TV Balaya EP135 | 2016-03-03
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06-03-2016 – Ada Derana – Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya – Agreement on ETCA is unclear – CMU
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04-03-3016 – The Island – Docs call for feasibility study on Indian ambulance service
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05-03-2016 – The Island – Indian HC tosses diplomacy to the wind
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05-03-2016 – The Island – Dealing with the elephant next door – By Kumar David
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06-03-2016 – The Island – Signing ETCA without consultation and caution, a disaster – I – By Elmo De Silva
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07-03-2016 – The Island – Signing ETCA without consultation and caution, a disaster – II – By Elmo De Silva
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07-03-2016 – දිවයින
- 08-03-2016 – Daily FT – Sinha roars for ETCA
- 08-03-2016 – Daily FT – ‘Padeniya Chinthana’ on ETCA: Govt. should fight it in intellectual forums, not in the streets
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08-03-2016 – Dear Member,
Common Banner will be displayed by all professional Associations of Sri Lanka against Proposed Indo Lanka Trade in Service Agreement
- 09-03-2016 – The Sunday Leader – Mixed Feelings On ETCA
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09-03-2016 – Mirror Businesses- Trade in services: Sri Lanka needs to pull up its socks
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10-03-2016 – FOR OUR ECONOMISTS :“Doing Business in Sri Lanka” – A_handbook_for_Indian_Business
- 14-03-2016 – රිවිර – ETCA ගැන අප කතාකරන්නේ රටටම හානිකර නිසයි – ඉංජිනේරු සුරාන් ප්රනාන්දු
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14-03-2016 – Health Sector Trade Unions Joint Press Conference Re: Ambulance Service
- 23-03-2016 – A Panel Discussion at SLASS “Section F”
The Panel was chaired by Prof. Sumanasiri Liyanage.
Panelists:
1.Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya
2. Dr. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan
3. Mr. Nalaka Jayaweera (Charted Architectur)
4. IT Eng. Lasantha Biyanka Wickramasinghe
- 24-03-2016 – Rally against ETCA at Hyde Park – Gallery
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25-03-2016 – රිවිර – එට්කා ගිවිසුම පැරදවීමට වෘතිකයෝ පෙළගැසෙති
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25-03-2016 – Mirror Citizen – Govt. has no mandate to sign ETCA-Ex- FUTA president
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27-03-2016 – Business Times – Heat over ETCA
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27-03-2016 – The Economis Times – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena defends ETCA with India
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28-03-2016 – වැඩබිම – එට්කා හදන්නේ දැනුම ඇති අය නොවෙයි – වරලත් ඉංජිනේරු අර්ජුන මනම්පේරි
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28-03-2016 – ලංකාදීප – “ඉට්කා” අවසන් තීරණයට පෙර උගතුන්, බුද්ධිමතුන් සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කරනවා
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29-03-2016 – Lanka Buisness Online – Sri Lanka should open up more than two sectors for ETCA: Prof. Samarajiva
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30-03-2016 – Lanka Buisness Online – Sri Lanka needs 6 months to fix issues before signing ETCA: Professionals
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30-03-2016 – එට්කා ගිවිසුම පිළිබඳ හෙළි කරන මාධ්යවේදීන්ට සිරදඩුවම
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30-03-2016 – Rational approach to Trade Agreements – 5 Steps
Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya’s Speech at SLAAS Section F Panel Discussion (English)
Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya’s Speech at ETCA Rally – Hyde PArk (Sinhala)
Presentation on 5 Step Rational approach to International Trade Agreements
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31-03-2016 – News 1st – State Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe clarifies statements made over ECTA agreement
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ETCA HICCOUGH
- 01-04-2016 – PM clarifies on proposed trade agreement with India
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02-04-2016 – Hiru News – Government must be open to views by professionals when drafting ECTA- UPM
Charted Engineer Gamini Nanda Gunawardena
Media Spokesman of United Professionals Movement
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05-04-2016 – ETCA Hiccough “ඉක්කාවක්”
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06-07-2016 – The Island – Indian working as carpenter illegally found to be suffering from malaria
- 08-04-2016 – ETCA HICCOUGHS!!
Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya’s Speech @ Galadari Hotel (English)
ETCA HICCOUGH!!
Organized by University of Sri Jayawardenepura Masters Association
Guest Panelist
Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
President – Government Medical Officers’ Association
- 13-06-2016 – GMOA launched A Petition – Petition to His Excellency the President
Petition to His Excellency the President to Emphasize the importance of Developing a National Policy for International Trade Agreements through the established responsible authority prior to signing bilateral international trade agreements.
ජාත්යන්තර වෙළද ගිවිසුම් සකස් කිරීමට පෙර ඒ පිලිබඳ ජාතික ප්රතිපත්තියක්, වගකිව යුතු අධිකාරියක් මගින් සැකසීමේ අවශ්යතාව අවධාරණය කරමින්, අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කරන පෙත්සම
சர்வதேச இருதரப்பு உடன்படிக்கைகளை கைச்சாத்திட முன்னர் சர்வதேச உடன்படிக்கை தொடர்பான பொறுப்பு கூறவல்ல அதிகார சபை ஒன்றின் ஊடாக தேசியக் கொள்கை ஒன்றை உருவாக்க வேண்டும் என்பதன் அவசியத்தை வலிறுத்தி அதிஉத்தம ஜனாதிபதி அவர்களுக்கு அளிக்கப்படவுள்ள மனு
