25 February, 2011 - Published 13:57 GMT

Sri Lanka AG meets UN chief

The UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon was updated by a high-level delegation of Sri Lankan officials on the post-conflict situation in the island, his spokesman said.

The Sri Lankan delegation included Attorney General Mohan Peiris and Foreign Secretary Romesh Jayasinghe, spokesman
Martin Nesirsky told journalists on Thursday.

The deputy minister of foreign affairs, Neomal Perera, has earlier rejected press reports that a high-level delegation was to meet the secretary general.

But the UN based Inner City Press has published photographs of Mr Moon meeting the Sri Lankan delegation in New York.

Sri Lanka refuses to grant permission for the secretary general’s advisory panel on Sri Lanka’s accountability issues regarding the last stage of the war against the Tamil Tigers.

Martin Nesirky has said that while a visit to Sri Lanka “would have been useful, it is not essential” for the group to provide their report advising the secretary general on any further action.