The task force appointed to oversee the implementation of the recommendations made by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) is making progress, the Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga has said today.
Following a directive by President Mahinda Rajapaksa the coalition parties of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) have handed over their stance on the LLRC report to the President's Secretary who is the competent authority to implement the LLRC recommendations. According to Weeratunga, the task force has selected 33 recommendations out of the 135 listed by the LLRC to be implemented at the national level. Some of the recommendations will be implemented this year while the others may be implemented next year after the budget for 2013 is prepared since the 2012 budget allocations to the ministries have been done before the release of the LLRC report last year, Weeratunga has said. The UN resolution on Sri Lanka, sponsored by the US and adapted by the UN Human Rights Council at the 19th sessions of UNHRC in Geneva on March 22, requests the Sri Lankan government to present, as expeditiously as possible, a comprehensive action plan detailing the steps that the government has taken and will take to implement the recommendations. President's Secretary has denied that there was a secret plan submitted to the United States during the meeting between External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris and the Secretary of State Hilary Clinton last month and said that the task force which had met as many as five times will make its progress public soon. He has said the government had apprised the US government on some of the practical difficulties in implementing the recommendations. Web www.colombopage.com
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