President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s secretary, Lalith Weeratunga, will visit the United States today, to hold discussions over progress made by Sri Lanka on recommendations from the highly discredited Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission.
Weeratunga, who has been assigned responsibility of the National Action Plan for the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), spent the past week briefing envoys of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.
The Sri Lankan envoy’s actions come as the lack of progress in accountability and justice in Sri Lanka have led the heightening of calls for an independent investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity ahead of the March session of the UNHRC.
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