Nov 05, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Disaster Management and Human Resources, Mahinda Samarasinghe and Minister of Posts and Telecommunication Rauf Hakeem are to participate in an international conference on federalism in India. All Party Representative Committee (APRC) Chairman Prof. Tissa Vitarana is also to attend the conference.

Around 1,000 representatives ranging from governments, state heads to activists from around 100 countries will attend the Fourth International Conference on Federalism from November 5 to 7 at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi.

Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the conference which will be attended by heads of state and heads of government from the world's leading federations.

Tamil National Alliance MP Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam and former EPDP MP K. Vigneswaran are also to take part in the conference.

Federalism is thoroughly resisted as a solution for the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. Both ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the major opposition United National Party have rejected federal solutions and insist unitary state in Sri Lanka.