President Mahinda Rajapakse has called for an All Party Conference tomorrow (2) to discuss the devolution of power to the North and East, in the aftermath of the European Union’s ban on the LTTE as a terrorist group and the request of the Co-Chairs that the Government should seek a political solution, senior official sources said yesterday (31).

Invitations to all political parties, to attend the conference to be held at the Presidential Secretariat, have been sent out sources said.

Tomorrow’s meeting will be the fourth All Party Conference to be held after President Rajapakse was elected in November 2005. Associated with the President will be senior government ministers, advisors and Secretary to President Lalith Weeratunga.

The President has been consulting his senior ministers and advisors on the devolution of power as a political solution to the problem in the North and East during the past weeks and is keen to apprise the international community of the Government’s proposals before possible talks with the LTTE, sources said.