Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to the government of Sri Lanka on the independence of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission; and what assessment his Department has made of the prospects that the Commission will meet the deadline of November 2011 to produce its final report.
We share international concern about the credibility of the Lessons Learned Reconciliation Commission's (LLRC) process. In my calls with the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister and during the visit of the Secretary of State for Defence, my right hon. Friend Mr Fox, we encouraged the Sri Lankan Government to use the LLRC to address past allegations effectively. The LLRC was originally due to report in November 2010, later extended to May 2011. Now we await its final report on
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