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Friday, May 06, 2011 - 04.55 GMT

Delegation to discuss Darusman report with NAM members

 

The government will send a delegation including External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris to meet with the representatives of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) during its foreign ministerial meeting in Bali, Indonesia on May 26 and 27 to discuss the Darusman report.

The will also send a detailed response to the report by the Panel of Advisors appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to advise him on Sri Lanka's accountability during the last phase of the humanitarian operation against LTTE.

The response will detail the ongoing post-war development process in the former rebel-controlled North and East and the drawbacks that would cause to the reconciliation process by the Report.

The three-member panel was prejudiced from the beginning, External Affairs Minister said speaking to media yesterday.

"The prejudice was clearly evident from the way they (the panel) described the LTTE as a most disciplined and nationalist Tamil organization," the Minister has said.

Prof. Peiris observing that the Panel has concluded that 'Sri Lanka war ended tragically, amidst controversy' has questioned whether the panel considered the ending of the war tragic because, in its opinion, the wrong side had won.

Sri Lanka rejected the Panel's report as fundamentally flawed and based on patently biased materials.

The Minister pointed out that the Panel is an advisory body to the UNSG and it was a basic misnomer to call its report as a 'UN report'. A clear distinction has to be made between the Advisory Panel and the UN and that the report had no stature as a UN document, he has said.

Emphasizing that Sri Lanka has a cordial relationship with the United Nations Prof. Peiris has reiterated the government's commitment to continue to work with the UN.



 

                   

 
   
   
     
   
   

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