Office of Missing Persons (OMP) bill incorporating amendments agreed by the Cabinet will be discussed in Parliament on June 22.

The decision was reached at the party leaders meeting a short while ago.

OMP bill, which was introduced in line with Sri Lanka's commitments to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, was passed in Parliament, last year.

The Cabinet, in March, this year, approved an amendment to the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) Act No. 14 of 2016, by removing Paragraph (a) of Section 11, stripping it of the power to 'enter into agreements, as are necessary, to achieve the mandate of the OMP, with any person or organization.'

The proposal to remove the paragraph was made by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP Bimal Ratnayake.

"The Legal Draftsman has drafted the amendment to Section 11 of the OMP Act and the Attorney General has confirmed that the provisions of the draft bill are not inconsistent with the Constitution and is not subject to any of the prohibitions or restrictions imposed by the 13th Amendment," a Cabinet memorandum, by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, stated.