Govt keen to resettle IDPs in shortest time

The Government is committed to resettle and rehabilitate Internally Displaced Persons in the North, who were the victims of the LTTE's terror and were held hostage by the LTTE, in the shortest possible time, President Mahinda Rajapaksa told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at bilateral talks on the sidelines of the 15th NAM Summit on Wednesday.

The UN Secretary General thanked the Sri Lankan Government for the excellent arrangements for his visit to Sri Lanka in the final stages of the battle with the LTTE.

The issue of IDPs, conditions in the IDP relief centres and the need for reconciliation among all communities were among the matters mentioned by the UN Secretary General during his discussions with President Rajapaksa.

He was told by the President that it was yet only eight weeks since the final liberation of the Tamil civilians from the LTTE, and the Government had demonstrated that it was doing its best to ease the conditions in the IDP relief centres during this period, and that conditions would further improve day-by-day. Read more ...