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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11909227" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Lr6pA.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTov3390LPtNmjw4o0HCsuTtrqjHmtezol7EowFi1-PxGrZXM9Mvw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Top US Ambassador, Stephen Rapp, will be visiting  Colombo over the coming weeks to hold high-level discussions with the  government, opposition and civil society groups over the current  situation in Sri Lanka, Ceylon Today learns. Rapp, is the US President’s Ambassador-at-Large for  War Crimes who has served as Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra  Leone beginning in January 2007, leading the prosecutions of former  Liberian President Charles Taylor and other persons alleged to bear the  greatest responsibility for the atrocities committed during the civil  war in Sierra Leone. His visit is expected to be a precursor to  international community’s push to have the Lessons Learnt and  Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) report discussed at the March sitting  of the United National Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.Speaking to Ceylon Today, Plantation Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said Sri  Lanka has so far been able to defer any move against the country’s human  rights record at the UNHRC, and added he was “not worried” about the  report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) being  discussed at the body in Geneva.Minister Samarasinghe said he was aware of the visit by Rapp through media reports, but  said that no official communication has taken place so far.Rapp is expected to hold high-level meetings with the government,  opposition and civil society organizations on the human rights situation  in the island and the post-war issues of accountability.Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan Ministry of External Affairs remained mum about the  protocol or visa issues in place for Rapp, and official spokespersons  for the Ministry said they were not aware of the visit.ceylontoday</blockquote>

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