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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7787539" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/2igzos5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The United Nations says its security officials are monitoring comments  made by government Minister Wimal Weerawansa who had today urged the  public to surround the UN office in Colombo and hold its staff hostage  until moves by the UN to appoint a panel on Sri Lanka is dropped.    When asked by a journalist from Innercitypress at a press briefing at  the UN in New York a short while ago to respond to the comments made by  Weerawansa as appearing on Daily Mirror online today, UN spokesman  Farhan Haq said the UN had contacted the Sri Lankan government over the  article and the government has assured the UN that the comments made by  Weerawansa was his “individual opinion”.         “Our security officials are aware of these remarks and they will check  if this official was quoted correctly and what he meant by that. The  government of Sri Lanka has assured us that this was an individual’s  opinion and not their policy,” the UN spokesman said.         The UN spokesman also said that New York had contacted the UN office in  Colombo to verify the report and added that at the moment there was no  immediate threat as a result of the comments made by the government  Minister.         He however noted that in general the UN does not condone or accept  threats made on UN staff anywhere be it by officials or anyone else.Dailymirrorvideo<a href="http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/pressbriefing/2010/brief100630.rm" target="_blank">http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/pressbriefing/2010/brief100630.rm</a>10.45</blockquote>

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