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Top UN official arrives in Sri Lanka for official visit

Xinhua, March 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

A top UN official had arrived in Sri Lanka for a six-day visit, a government statement said Monday. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence, Pablo de Greiff, arrived in Sri Lanka Sunday on an "exploratory visit and for consultations", the government said.

During his visit, de Greiff is scheduled to meet with government officials and leaders of civil society organizations. He is also expected to visit the war ravaged north and meet Tamil political leaders as well as the northern Tamil people.

His visit came ahead of a visit by the UN Working Group for Enforced Disappearances and a visit by the team of the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) at the invitation of the government.

The government has also invited the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit the island nation. The Sri Lankan government has maintained close dialogues with senior UN officials while it aims to set up a domestic probe on allegations of war crimes committed during the final stages of the country's civil war which ended in May 2009.

The government has assured the UN that the local investigation will meet international standards and all those charged with rights abuses will be dealt with within Sri Lanka's judicial system. Endi