"We are expecting it to be by April, the political process to come up with definite proposals for a political solution -- the constitutional reforms," he told AFP in an interview in Washington ahead of talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday.
He said that an all-party consultative committee had emerged with several proposed constitutional reforms to be refined into a "final" plan "within a few weeks from now," setting the stage for what could be devolution of power in Sri Lanka.
"These are matters I would be able to impress upon the Secretary of State in terms of our political direction" towards a resolution to Sri Lanka's 35-year-old ethnic conflict, in which 60,000 people have died, Bogollagama said.
He did not say how President Mahinda Rajapakse's administration is going to forge what many consider a difficult consensus among the various political parties on the mechanics of sharing power with the minority Tamils.
Rebels from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E