Sri Lankan government criticizes UN report as "divisive" English.news.cn   2011-04-27 21:02:18 FeedbackPrintRSS COLOMBO, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's External Affairs Ministry said Wednesday that the UN panel report on the country is fundamentally flawed in many respects and has divisive influence to the country that has just concluded its decades old conflict. Following the end of conflict, the Sri Lankan government has given the highest priority to post-conflict reconciliation, rehabilitation, reconstruction and development, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said the government is in the process of addressing those challenges and has recorded significant success on many fronts, including in the resettlement of internally displaced persons, restoring livelihood in conflict-affected areas, release of former child soldiers recruited by terrorists, rehabilitation of detainees, de-mining, restoring democratic processes in the north and east as well as in the reconstruction of housing and infrastructure. "We are moving gradually and confidently forward along a process that will consolidate national unity and progress," said the ministry. "The public release of the report at this stage is divisive, and disrupts our efforts to reinforce peace, security and stability in Sri Lanka. It feeds into the political agendas of interested parties," the ministry said, referring to the UN panel report which calls for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes committed in Sri Lanka during the last stages of the war between the government troops and the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. The Sri Lankan government has put in place of its own domestic mechanism dealing with a range of issues relevant to the conflict with a view to promoting reconciliation and confidence among people and has established an Inter-Agency Committee consisting of seven key ministries in order to proceed with the interim recommendations of the domestic mechanism, Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. The statement said the objective of the government is to provide urgent relief and to engender a sense of confidence among the people affected by the conflict and give impetus to the reconciliation process. Editor: Chen Zhi