Jan 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka government is planning to establish a new framework for the demining process in the recently liberated Northern region.

Advisor for the Ministry of Nation Building M.S Jayasinghe said that they hope to commence the demining process in the North within the next two weeks.

According to the Jayasinghe the government is planning to handover this process to three or four international demining groups in cooperation with the Sri Lanka Army.

The demining process is scheduled to begin from Silawathurei in Mannar District which was completely cleared by the security forces.

Demining of other four districts in the Northern region, Kilinochchi, Vavuniya, Jaffna and Mullaitivu is to begin step by step in the near future, according to the Ministry. Meanwhile the Nation Building Ministry said that 98% of the demining in the Eastern Province is already completed.