xinhuanet.com,  Mon Jan 16 16:14:07 EST 2006

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged parties in Sri Lanka on Monday to stop conflicts and resume peace talks, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

    In a statement released by the spokesman, Annan said he is very concerned about the deteriorating security situation in Sri Lanka, and deplores the attack on Saturday on the facilities of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission.

    "Escalating violence in the past few months has put a severe strain on the cease-fire," Dujarric said, adding "the impact of renewed violence is once again being felt by the civilian population."

    According to the spokesman, the secretary-general stressed that"a return to conflict will not resolve outstanding differences between the parties."

    "He strongly urges the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to shore up the cease-fire, ensure respect for the human rights of all Sri Lankans, and urgently resume their dialogue under the facilitation of the Norwegian Government," Dujarric conclud
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it is very happy to see that UN is interested in SL peace discussions. we will welcome if UN can become SL peace facilitater. so they can do the work of SLMM duties also. they can undertake the tsunami rehablitation in NE. i think UN can play key role in SL peace process. no one can get political advantage from UN peace faciltator role in SL instead of norway who faces unreasonable critizism from jvp/jh &mr.even un can send their troops to rehabilitate the war affected people.

What's wrong with this guy?  We HAVE a ceasefire.  Or do we?

The UN is nothing better than Norway as the facilitator or mediator, looking at the "attutude" it had adopted and it's practice in respect to the ethnic isues and civil war in Sri Lanka.

Both of them have no ethics in terms of their responsibility and mandate given to them by member nations.

A deep look at how both Norway and the UN has engaged in the situation clearly indicated their biased outlook and manner in which they have given consideration and handled the ethnic issue, civil war and the Peace Process. There has been NO balanced approach and considerations of all the priority issues of the Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims. Untill and unless all such concerns and issues are give due consideration in the "DUE PROCESS" of mediation of the Peace Process, the Tamils, Sinhalaese and Muslims cannot TRUST the UN/Koffi Annan in the facilitation and mediation engagement of the Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims in Sri Lanka.

On the other hand, look at how Mr. Kofi Annan's UN and his UN agencies are handling the Tsunami Aid engagements under their perview. The UN officials in Colombo, Sri Lanka are ONLY concentrating all their investments and aid assistance activities in the South. They are bomsucking the incumbent President. This started long before the Presidential Elections.
Even the FAO Resident Representative Ms. Mona Chaya has channnelled all the fisheries and agricultural UN tsunami assiustance mostly to the South. Off course Ms. Ms. Mona Chaya has channelled some assistance to the Wanni and Eastern/Northern regions, but has completely sidelined the North Eastern Region MUSLIM populated aresa such as Nitahvur, Sammanthurai, Oluvil and all the little coastal villages in the North Eastern coastal belt.

Even the UNHCR transistional shelters have been only built mostly in the South, some in the Tamil aresa, but the Muslims areas have been completely forgotten.

The UN should NOT think that the Sri Lankan Muslims who are a people who have completely denounced taking to arms and violence and still believe in the democratic institutions of Sri Lanka and the democractic  political system are NOT fools to be deceived by the UN or Norway. Our concerned citizens and academics are also engaged in doing research into the deceptions of Norway and the UNO and it's Agencies like the UNHCR, FAO, UNDP, UNV and those that are involved in the Tsunami Aid programmes to prove that the UNO is and cannot be trusted and is completely biased and imbalanced and is practicing "RELIGIOUS PROFILING" in it's activities in Sri Lanka.

There is NO room for such unethical practices in Sri Laanka and the people of Sri Lanka have a very long history and tradition of living and co-existing in harmony and peace. We do NOT want foreign interests and powers to promote this divison in the present context, using the 45 billion dollars Aid package put together by countries who want a just and fair distrinution of this humanitarian aid that may help in a just and fair resolution of the ethic issues in Sri Lanka.

Noor Nizam.
Hamilton.
Canada.

AND what sya's Ms. Mona Chaya - FAO Resident Representative of this?
Cey-Nor says FAO owes Rs. 65 million
by Shirajiv Sirimane

The Cey-Nor Foundation claims that the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is in debt of Rs. 65 million to them.

According to the General Manager Cey-Nor, K. D. L. Liyanage this money is now overdue for almost 6 months. He said that the FAO had earlier paid a sum of around Rs. 10 million and since then no payments have been made.

The FAO had pointed out the documents for payments were not in order and subsequently a team of auditors from Rome had visited last month and had even done an audit of Cey-Nor. The FAO has to pay around Rs. 45 million for supplying spare parts to repair engines and a further Rs. 20 million has been accumulated as labour charges.

He said that the Cey-Nor has to pay nearly Rs. 30 million for their suppliers and due to the delay of FAO payments these suppliers too are facing problems.

The new Chairman of the Cey-Nor Foundation Ltd, Rohan Jayasinghe said one of his priorities would be to recall all the debts owed to the institution. "FAO issue is on the top of the list," he said. Cey-Nor founded in 1967 by a non governmental organisation based in Norway was taken over by the government in the 1980s and came under the purview of the Ministry of Fisheries.

In addition to the FAO debts, CeyNor also has around another Rs. 5 million to be collected.

Meanwhile FAO, Media Officer, James Terjanian when contacted on this issue said that he has been given instructions not to comment on the issue.FAO is the UN's coordinating agency for the rehabilitation of the fisheries and agriculture sectors in Sri Lanka.

Noor Nizam.
Hamilton.
Canada.

rawana wrote:

no one can get political advantage from UN peace faciltator role in SL instead of norway who faces unreasonable critizism from jvp/jh &mr.

Don't under estimate JVP & Champika.
They can build conspiracy theory on anything.
They can create a political storm out of nothing.
Take my word,  wait and see !

Honarable Kofi Annan was waiting till some european gets shocked in a bomb blast. LTTE killed nearly 60 soldiers and injured civilians here, and he was sleeping. He wakes up when a tiger gets hurt. What is wrong with this man? IS he anti-Sri Lanka?

The UN is nothing better than Norway as the facilitator or mediator, looking at the "attutude" it had adopted and it's practice in respect to the ethnic isues and civil war in Sri Lanka.

Dear Noor Nizam,

When you take the rack record of the UN Blue helmets, I agree.  They should come with a mandate.  Otherwise they will be just another toothless tiger?

One of the benefits we can get from a UN face keeping mission are, providing a face saving existing opportunity for Norwegians.

UN involvement in any country is a very sensitive matter. Hence the reluctance of the UN Chief to send in peacekeepers to every conflict situation. This has the potential of SL losing all control in the current situation.

Best course of action is to adopt a scorched earth policy with regards to LTTE areas as soon as possible, in the shortest possible amt of time and as quietly as possible and then appoint a government controlled ethinically balanced ruling mechanism in N and E provinces. Any devolvement of power should be discussed afterwards with this group on terms favourable to the government.

This situation will enable the destruction of LTTE power structures in these areas and achieve peace sooner.

UN always bluff....words are not enough...do something.

Who Killed Most Tamils? Prabaharan or Sangilian
Jan 5th, 2006, 2:20pm  Quote 

www.tulf.org
 
Who killed most Tamils in the Sri Lankan Tamil's history?
King Sangilia massacred more than four thousand (4,000) tamils in Mannar just becuase they were catholics. Women and children are amongst  them.
 
How many did Prabaharan kill?
How many more he is going to kill?

Who is this guy Barathi?

He appaears to have created a wbsite and is constantly promoting his site on this forum.

He has never written anything relevant to the report being discussed!

Moderators! Did you notice?

Did the presence of the UN prevent the rape and murder of thousands of Muslim men and women in Bosnia?  Did it prevent Yugoslavia from breaking up?  The answer to both these questions is 'No'.

There are a lot of success stories from UN.
One good example is Liberia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3193522.stm
http://www.womenwarpeace.org/liberia/liberia.htm

My regard for the UN has diminished to a large degree over my lifetime.

The main reason for setting up the UN was to avoid (another) war. It has failed miserably in this. It has been easily manipulated and sometimes ignored when countries like the US wanted to bash up lesser countries like Iraq. Iran is just round the corner. To be followed by North Korea.

The UN should stick the job it knows best: printing UNICEF greeting cards.