Secy General rejects figures attributed to UN
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday rejected in the strongest
terms any figure attributed to the United Nations.
Briefing the General Assembly on his recent visit to Sri Lanka and
other travels, the Secretary-General said, media reports alleging that
some 20,000 civilians may have been killed during the last phase of the
conflict "do not emanate from the UN and most are not consistent with
the information at our disposal".
"I stand ready to do whatever we can in the interests of justice,
human rights and Sri Lanka's political future," the Secretary General
said in his address to the Assembly yesterday.
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