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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10866053" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9015/61690937.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A top Obama administration official will travel to Sri Lanka next week,  days after the US warned Colombo that an international inquiry could be  launched against it if it did not take adequate steps for a credible  probe into charges of humanitarian crimes during the LTTE war.Robert  Blake, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, will  visit Sri Lanka from August 29-31, an official announcement said here  today."He will meet with government officials, civil society  representatives, university students and political leaders while in Sri  Lanka," the State Department said.The announcement follows State  Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland's remarks earlier this month  that the US would like the Sri Lankan government "to establish the kind  of accountable system that its people can have confidence in.""If  that does not happen and does not happen expeditiously, then we reserve  the right to discuss international mechanisms," Nuland had said.A  UN panel had also called for setting up of an "independent  international mechanism" into what it called "credible" allegations that  Sri Lankan military committed war crimes in its final decisive  offensive against LTTE rebels in 2009.Sri Lanka, on the other hand, has dismissed the charges as "unsubstantiated".PTI</blockquote>

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