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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7853801" data-attributes="member: 92282">The United States said Thursday that it was  in Sri Lanka's own interest to cooperate with the United Nations, which  closed down its Colombo office after angry protests over a war crimes  panel.Sri Lanka has refused to cooperate with a panel named last  month by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that would advise on  "accountability issues" during the island's bloody three-decade war that  ended last year."We feel like it's in Sri Lanka's best interest  to accept these people and their expert advice and that's offered in  good faith," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters.The  United States has previously urged Sri Lanka to work for long-term  reconciliation between the majority Sinhalese community and the Tamil  minority.Sri Lanka's relations with Western nations grew tense  last year due to criticism over its human rights record, but the United  States has in recent months tried to patch up with the island nation.The  United Nations has previously said that at least 7,000 ethnic Tamil  civilians were killed in the final stages of the war, and it estimates  some 100,000 people died during the decades-long conflict.<a href="http://sify.com/news/us-says-sri-lanka-should-work-with-un-news-international-khjcabejgbf.html" target="_blank">sify</a></blockquote>

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