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Gazette on maintaining public order issued

(UTV|COLOMBO) – President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued an Extraordinary Gazette calling on the Armed Forces to continue to maintain public order across the country.

President Rajapaksa has issued the Gazette by virtue of the powers vested in him by Section 12 of the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40) and the order was extended for a period of one month with effect from today.

Accordingly, the Army, Navy and the Air Force have been called out for the maintenance of public order in the Administrative Districts of Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Jaffna, Mannar, Mullaitivu, Batticaloa, Ampara, Trincomalee, Puttalam and the territorial water adjacent to such Districts, Administrative Districts of Kandy, Matale, Nuwara Eliya, Kilinochchi, Vavuniya, Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Badulla, Monaragala, Ratnapura, Kegalle.

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