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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12953850" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Msc2011_SZ_004_Menon_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Msc2011_SZ_004_Menon_%28cropped%29.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />COLOMBO (PTI) — Issues like reconciliation  with minority Tamils are expected to figure prominently in talks  National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon will have with the Sri  Lankan leadership during his ongoing visit here.      Menon, who arrived here by a special flight just after midnight  last night, is scheduled to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his  younger brothers Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Economic development; and  Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Defence Secretary, officials said.  The NSA, who had served here as India's High Commissioner, may also  seek a meeting with main Tamil party TNA leader Rajavayothi Sampanthan,  political sources said.            Menon's visit comes days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Rajapaksa on the margins of the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil.  Although the Indian officials here were tight-lipped about the purpose  of the NSA's visit, Sri Lanka's commitment towards devolution in line  with the 13th amendment to the Constitution is expected to figure at the  high level-talks.  Sri Lankan officials yesterday, however, denied speculation that Menon  would press for de-escalation of the military presence in the  war-ravaged north.      India has been urging the Rajapaksa regime to fully implement the  13th amendment as an urgent measure to achieve reconciliation with the  Tamil minority.               Rajapaksa has been making varying statements on giving effect to the  amendment. Indians are apparently unhappy that an action had failed to  follow his words.  The government here has been deferring the northern provincial polls despite calls from the global community.      Ahead of Menon's visit, the media here had reported that he would  raise concerns over the anti-Indian stance adopted by some Sri Lankan  ministers, demilitarisation of the north and east and follow up action  on the UNHRC resolution which India had backed against Sri Lanka.</blockquote>

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