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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11209191" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_02/KevinRuddAP_468x320.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The Australian government  will be keen to learn the findings of a Sri Lankan report addressing  issues of war crimes, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd says.The  federal government has called on Sri Lanka and its President Mahinda  Rajapaksa to address allegations of human rights abuses during the war  against Tamil Tiger separatists in 2009.Mr Rudd told reporters in Perth on Tuesday that he had so far only exchanged pleasantries with the Sri Lankan foreign minister.But he said the issue was likely to come up during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week.Mr  Rudd said a United Nations report into the controversy mentioned the  possibility of potential war-crimes trials against the Sri Lankan  government and the president."That is why we have called on the  Sri Lankan government, together with other governments around the world,  to respond to each of the matters that affects them in their  reconciliation commission report," he said."What we will all be  looking at carefully is the content in that report once it is delivered  and how it deals with specific matters and allegations contained within  the earlier UN report."Sri Lanka is due to host the next CHOGM in 2013 but Canada has already threatened to pull out of the summit.AAP</blockquote>

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