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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7737483" data-attributes="member: 92282">The Russian government has criticized UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s  decision to appointment a panel of experts on Sri Lanka saying it  should have been done in consultation with the Security Council or the  General Assembly as well as Sri Lanka.    The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow has taken note of UN  Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s decision to appoint a UN panel of  experts to investigate war crimes during the period of the campaign  against the LTTE.          “In doing so, the UN Secretary-General as chief administrative officer  of the United Nations should apparently have asked the opinion of the  Security Council or the General Assembly on this matter. But this has  not happened. What also makes us cautious is the fact that this decision  was taken without regard to the position of a sovereign state and a  member of the UN – Sri Lanka,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.         The UN panel is not a fact finding or investigation mechanism, but is  designed solely to advise the UN Chief on accountability issues relating  to alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian  law.          However Russia notes that Sri Lanka has already begun their own  investigation process at national level and the primary responsibility  for investigating the events that occurred in the past in Sri Lanka lies  with the Sri Lankan Government.         Sri Lanka regards the appointment of the Sri Lanka Panel of Experts as  unwarranted and unnecessary and contrary to the position of a UN member  state.          The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the newly appointed UN panel of  experts, which, as follows from UN Secretariat statements, does not  intend to visit Sri Lanka and will not take any steps that would  complicate the investigation being conducted by the authorities of  Colombo.dailymirror</blockquote>

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