US has high expectations for LLRC report

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The United States says it has high expectations for the report of Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).

Responding to a media query at the daily press briefing on 3 November the State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said: “Not only that the report will be of highest quality, but that the Sri Lankan Government will take steps to implement it.”

In May 2010, President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed the eight-member Commission to report on the lessons to be learnt from the events in the period, Feb 2002 to May 2009, their attendant concerns and to recommend measures to ensure that there will be no recurrence of such a situation.

When asked about Sri Lanka Tamil National Alliance parliamentarians’ meeting with the State Department officials last week, Nuland acknowledged that they met the Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman.

“I’ll leave to them to characterise their views,” Nuland said.

The Spokesperson said that US lawmakers, who visited Sri Lanka recently, came back with a positive view of Sri Lanka’s moving forward.

She also said that Sri Lankan Ambassador in Washington is saying that his country’s moving forward and IMF has now more interest and also faith in Sri Lanka’s economy.

“As we still wait for the report on 15 November by the Sri Lankan Government, in the meantime the report had been coming that things are changing in Sri Lanka as far as economically and also humanitarian aids,” she added.