Report will be published in full - UN



While claiming that it would publish the report of the Panel of Experts concerning Sri Lanka, in full and without amendment soon, the United Nations yesterday said that it was still trying to ascertain whether Sri Lanka is willing to avail themselves of the offer.

Addressing the daily media briefing acting deputy spokesperson for the UN Chief, Farhan Haq said “It is our intention to release it as soon as is possible, and we still would like to publish it simultaneously with a response by the Sri Lankan Government.”

“We are still trying to ascertain whether they are willing to avail themselves of this offer,” he added.

The Spokesperson said that the United Nations is in talks with the Sri Lankan Government, including through its Permanent Mission to the United

Nations, to see whether Sri Lanka would avail itself in good faith of the opportunity to respond to the report.
He emphasized that the United Nations would issue the report in full. At the same time, it was allowing the involved Member State to exercise its own right to respond.

Asked whether the Panel ohas verstepped its mandate, the Spokesperson said the report would speak for itself. He added that the Secretary-General believed the Panel had performed its job conscientiously.

Asked about the leaking of the report, Haq said that the United Nations has kept scrupulously to its word to keep the contents of the report confidential until it is released.

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