President Rajapaksa said he hopes to provide a 'home grown' solution to the conflict and does not hope to be experimenting solutions. The international community too would cooperate in implementing the solution, not impair it, he hoped.
"The solution will be ours and not anything imposed by another country," President said in Tamil.
"Any solution to the problem must be indigenous and not imported. The international community can assist us but they cannot work out solutions as a solution must be national and acceptable to all people," the President said.
President pointed out that the end of the war against the 'terrorist' was not a defeat for the Tamil community and henceforth, he did not want to identify them as a minority community in the country.
According to President Rajapaksa, Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, and Malays are no longer minorities, all are Sri Lankans.
There are now only two national identities, patriots and non-patriots, the latter is now the minority, President stressed.
He said that following the liberation of the North the entire nation comes under the rule of the parliament from now onwards.
"Earlier the government administration did not function in a part of the country," he said.
The President said the biggest challenge was nation building and the resettlement of the displaced persons. He called upon all politics parties to be partners in that national task.
Finally President Rajapaksa urged the Tamil Diaspora to return to Sri Lanka and help rebuild the nation that has been destroyed by terrorism. He said a bigger challenge is to convince the Tamil Diaspora not to help the terrorism further.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa did not make any reference to the Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in his speech to the parliament.
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