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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7863333" data-attributes="member: 92282">The US on Saturday said it was "deeply dismayed" at the treatment meted  out to a top UN official in Sri Lanka and asked the Rajapaksa government  to take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of UN personnel and  premises there.  "The United States is deeply dismayed by the harassment and intimidation  of UN personnel and we urge the government of Sri Lanka to meet its  obligations under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and  Associated personnel," the state Department spokesman Mark Toner told PTI on the latest development in Sri Lanka. <img src="http://www.zeenews.com/image/spacer.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                           "We understand that the United Nations has closed its regional centre  (in Sri Lanka) and recalled for consultations its resident  co-coordinator due to the blockade of the UN compound this week in  Colombo and the role played in it by a government Minister," he said. "We also call upon the government of Sri Lanka to take all appropriate  steps to ensure and safety and security of the personnel and premises of  the United Nations, of which Sri Lanka is a member," Toner said. <img src="http://www.zeenews.com/image/spacer.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                             "Government of Sri Lanka is a member of the UN. We are very  concerned about, what we believe is intimidation of the UN offices  there," he said. "We have conveyed our concern to the Sri Lankan government on this  issue," Toner said.<a href="http://www.ptinews.com/news/778429_US-dismayed-at-treatment-to-UN-official-in-Sri-Lanka-" target="_blank">PTI</a></blockquote>

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