According to Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, will visit Sri Lanka from the 25th to 31st August 2013.
Commenting on Pillay's upcoming visit, Aryasinha said today,
"Sri Lanka considers this visit as part of its continued transparent and proactive engagement with the High Commissioner and the OHCHR. We believe that the visit would enable the High Commissioner to experience at first hand the significant strides made and also efforts presently underway in the reconciliation process in Sri Lanka, in the relatively brief period of 4 years since the end of the ruthless terrorist conflict that decimated our nation and its peoples for 30 long years."
The Sri Lankan envoy also confirmed to that Northern Provincial Council elections would be held in September, after the electoral register was prepared.