UN chief, team pleased with SL’s post-war reconciliation process
Chamikara WEERSINGHE
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki- Moon, his Chief of Staff
Vijay Nambiar and former UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox have reportedly
commended Sri Lanka’s resettlement and rehabilitation process, during a
meeting with Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Special Envoy, Minister Mahinda
Samarasinghe in New York yesterday.
Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe with UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-Moon. |
The meeting was held as part of the UN’s ongoing dialogue with the
Sri Lankan government about accountability issues centred on human
rights and post war reconciliation process, Minister Samarasinghe’s
aides told the Daily News from New York yesterday.
Minister Samarasinghe is in New York attending the meeting of the
Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs Committee of the 66th session
of the UN General Assembly.
Moon had said that he was pleased with the action taken to release
LTTE cadres after rehabilitating them.
Fox and Nambiar had reportedly praised the government for its speedy
recovery after the war in terms of resettling those who have been
internally displaced by the war.
Minister Samarasinghe had told Moon, Fox and Nambiar that the
government has started a national dialogue with all political parties to
achieve an amicable solution to their problems after the war.
He apprised Moon about the progress the government has achieved in
the sphere of national integration and reconciliation after the war.
He also mentioned the supportive role played by the Security Forces
to speed up the resettlement process in the North and East.
He told the UN Chief that the government is committed to protect the
human rights of all communities in Sri Lanka. |