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UN Panel begins work
The advisory panel appointed by UN Secretary General to advice him on accountability issues related to Sri Lanka commenced work on Monday, the United Nations announced. The panel "had their first meeting in New York yesterday and will continue to meet with UN officials this week," the secretary general's spokesman Farhan Haq told BBC Sandeshaya. "What they are doing is trying to see particularly judging from how other similar circumstances have been handled; how to deal with the question of accountability," he said. Ban Ki-moon appointed the panel to advise him on how to deal with alleged perpetrators of abuses but the Sri Lankan government has strongly objected to the appointment. Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Prof GL Peiris said that the UN panel was "unnecessary" and the team would not be allowed to enter to Sri Lanka. "The position of the Sri Lanka government is abundantly clear - we will not have them in this country," he said. The UN has described the move to prevent the panel from entering the country as "most unfortunate" "Everybody loses out if we cannot go to Sri Lanka, it will make it harder for the truth to be unearthed," former Indonesian attorney-general Marzuki Darusman - the head of the three-member panel - told BBC Sandeshaya.
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