Saturday, 27 July 2013 00:12
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As Sri Lanka scrambles to make progress on outstanding accountability issues ahead of a Human Rights Council Session in September and a major Commonwealth Summit two months later, a Security Advisor for UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay arrived in the country this week to make preliminary arrangements for her visit in late August.
Chief Security Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Abraham Mathai and his team visited the Naval Dockyard in Trincomalee on Wednesday (24 July) for discussions. Pillay’s advance team met with Eastern Naval Area Commander Rear Admiral Rohan Amarasinghe for talks, the Sri Lanka Navy said.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka in the final week of August for a visit that will last several days.
She is expected to follow up on progress made on several key issues of alleged war time abuses including the murder of the five students in Trincomalee and the 17 aid workers attached to Action Contre Faim (ACF) killed during the siege of Muttur in 2006.
Pillay will submit a report of her findings and consultations about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva upon her return. (DB)
