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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 6908840" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka on Saturday said that the decision of the UN Secretary  General to constitute a special committee to advise him on the island  nation's accountability issues was unwarranted and the aid agency should  not interfere with the internal affairs of any country. In a telephone conversation with President Mahinda Rajapaksa on  Thursday evening, UNSG Ban Ki-moon said he intended to "go ahead with  the establishment of a panel of experts, to advise him, the Secretary  General," on Sri Lanka's accountability in context of allegation of  human rights violations and war crimes. Reacting strongly, Rajapaksa told Ban over telephone "it was both  unprecedented and unwarranted as no such action had been taken about  other states with continuing armed conflicts on a large scale, involving  major humanitarian catastrophes and causing the deaths of large numbers  of civilians due to military action." Rajapaksa added that "the implementation of such an intention would  certainly be perceived as an interference with the current general  election campaign being held island wide." General election is slated  for April 8. Sources in the President's office told HT Rajapaksa wanted to drive  home the point that it was strange that the UN had never spoken about  forming special committees on Afghanistan or Iraq, places where conflict  is raging for years. Ban's decision to form a panel was told to Rajapaksa the same day UN  High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay repeated her call for an  independent investigation into war crimes allegations in Sri Lanka. She  stated that human rights abuses in the country were damaging prospects  of reconciliation after 26 years of the civil war. Earlier, UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston had urged Ban to appoint  an international panel to investigate presumptive war crimes in Sri  Lanka. These include the urging of LTTE leaders to emerge with white  flags, after which they were executed.<a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/srilanka/War-of-words-between-UN-and-Sri-Lanka/Article1-515883.aspx" target="_blank">hindustantimes</a></blockquote>

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