FILE- Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe inspects a military guard of honor after arriving at the parliamentary complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug. 3, 2022. Sri Lanka’s president said on Wednesday, Aug.9, 2023 that he will strengthen provincial governments to meet long-standing demands for self-rule from the ethnic Tamil minority, an issue that led to a bloody quarter-century civil war in the island nation. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)