President receives thousand-letter appeal for ban on alcohol sale
30 Dec 2009, 6:25 PM
Over a thousand letters requesting a ban on the sale of alcohol in inhabited islands were submitted to the president’s office today by a coalition of NGOs campaigning against revised regulations to grant liquor licenses to tourist hotels.
Speaking to press outside the president’s office, Mauroof Zakir, spokesperson for the coalition, said the NGOs had decided to send a letter to the president and create a petition.
“These are only the letters we got in a short period of time,” he said. “It’s not just from the civil society associations, but from the public who are not involved in the associations.”
He added the members of the public who sent the letters wanted to show that they did not want alcohol sold in inhabited islands.
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