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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 13348740" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/S7Q6U.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka, which was censured over its human rights record in March, is  set to welcome a team of technical experts led by UN High Commissioner  for Human Rights Navi Pillay to check on the country's resettlement  programmes.The team is to arrive on September 14 to offer advice  and technical assistance to the Sri Lankan government, months after the  adoption of the US-sponsored and India-backed resolution at the UN  Human Rights Council sessions held late March.The team would  visit north and east Sri Lanka checking on the government's resettlement  programmes and the internally displaced people (IDP) issues, external  affairs ministry officials said.The decision to welcome the Navi Pillay-led team is being seen as a change of heart.The government initially showed resistance to the move.The  main elements of the UN resolution which urged expeditious action by  the Sri Lankan government over its own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation  Commission (LLRC) were that Sri Lanka should formulate an action plan,  and that the office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner in consultation  with the government of Sri Lanka offer advice and technical assistance  on implementation of the resolution.The LLRC report had  dismissed allegations that Sri Lankan troops deliberately targeted  civilians during the last phase of the civil war with the LTTE which  ended in 2009.In the immediate aftermath of the resolution,  Colombo took the public stand that technical experts' visit was  unacceptable since it was not a party to the resolution.Sri  Lanka had blamed the pro-LTTE diaspora for enticing the US to move the  resolution, an action they described as an interference in the country's  internal affairs.PTI</blockquote>

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