Ban to meet Petrie today on Lanka report

14 Nov, 2012

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet the head of the?Internal Review Panel on United Nations Action in Sri Lanka?Charles Petrie today, a UN spokesman said.

UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said that he could not comment on the?BBC report citing the leaked report on Sri Lanka but the official report will be handed over to the UN Chief at today’s meeting.

He also said that after the UN Secretary General reads the report it will be made public.

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