P1-2: USA - Sri Lanka - Sec.Clinton pledges strong support & optimism - 28.05.2010

US Secretary of State expresses strong support & optimism for Sri Lanka.

The U.S., she says, fully supports SL's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered strong support Friday for Sri Lanka's efforts to rebuild after a successful 25-year struggle against terrorism.
Following a meeting with Sri Lanka's External Affairs Minister Prof.
G.L. Peiris, Secretary Clinton praised the Government of Sri Lanka's
decision to establish a Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission
to examine conduct at the conflict's conclusion.

"The United States strongly supports political and ethnic
reconciliation in Sri Lanka," Secretary Clinton said. "Such
commissions of inquiry have played an important role in advancing
accountability and redressing wrongs in other countries emerging from
periods of internal strife.

"I think the steps that have been taken by the Sri Lankan Government
are commendable and we are supporting that effort."

The cordial meeting was the first for Prof. Peiris, the Minister of
External Affairs, with the U.S. Secretary of State. The United States
is Sri Lanka's largest export trading partner, and it continues to
provide humanitarian assistance and development aid to Sri Lanka.
Secretary Clinton noted that Sri Lanka has resettled the vast majority
of the 297,000 people who were displaced by the conflict.

"There has been tremendous progress and many thousands and thousands
of such internally displaced persons have returned home," she said.
"And we have discussed the need to continue the safe, dignified and
voluntary return to homes."

During the meeting, Prof. Peiris told Secretary Clinton that Sri Lanka
hopes to resettle the remaining 45,000 displaced people within the
next three months.

"It is not a question of just resettling people physically," the
Minister said. "We want to ensure a restoration of livelihoods so that
they're able to live their lives with dignity without bitterness or
rancor. That's very essential."

Secretary Clinton said that U.S. humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka will
continue, but that more of it will be targeted to help Sri Lanka
repair its infrastructure as displaced persons return home.
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According to Weis and Alston (UN) war crimes ony done by SL Army. When LTTE massacred hundreds of thousands Sri Lankans they said LTTE has reasons to kill Sinhalese. They called LTTE freedom fighters. When Al Quaeda hit WTC on 9-11, they called it terrorism. When Bush invaded Iraq they called it justice. When Americans killed 1 million Iraqis, they said freedom to Iraqis. How come war crime charges for Sri Lanka and no war crimes for USA? These hypocratic white Europeans insult our common sense.

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• Hillary Clinton
• G.L. Peiris

[NoEalamInSL]

June 23 (MoD)US Supreme Court bans support to designated terrorist outfits U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal criminal law that bans support to designated terrorist organizations, including the LTTE, rejecting a free-speech challenge by groups that say they have peaceful aims. The court ruled 6-3 that the law can be applied to organizations and U.S. citizens looking to teach nonviolent methods of conflict resolution to LTTE and Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party [PKK].

[NoEalamInSL]

According to Weis and Alston (UN) war crimes ony done by SL Army. When LTTE massacred hundreds of thousands Sri Lankans they said LTTE has reasons to kill Sinhalese. They called LTTE freedom fighters. When Al Quaeda hit WTC on 9-11, they called it terrorism. When Bush invaded Iraq they called it justice. When Americans killed 1 million Iraqis, they said freedom to Iraqis. How come war crime charges for Sri Lanka and no war crimes for USA? These hypocratic white Europeans insult our common sense.

[119roshan]

looks like kolonelkaruna had something to do with you or your mother.is that why u using his name huh u gay boy...i respect dr peris because he is not corrupted like any other politicians..also he is a well educated man

[KolonelKARUNA]

clinton reads peries talks!..weldone borth!

[KolonelKARUNA]

@119roshan ..who are u?..his gul-boy?

[119roshan]

this man is well spoken.should've been the foreign minster after late mr.kadiragamar..unlike mr.bogollagama he knows how to handle such a difficult situations..man like this should be the president of sri lanka..well educated man!well done sir