OHCHR team arrives in Colombo

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 September 2012, 08:31 GMT]
Hanny Megally, Chief of Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Friday arrived in Colombo on a week-long tour to the island.

The delegation will be undertaking th tour from September 14 to 20 as a precursor to the visit of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navaneethampillai later in the year, states Sri Lanka’s Foreign Secretary Karunatilaka Amunugama in a letter to Mr Sampanthan, the parliamentary group leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) confirming his appointment with the visiting OHCHR delegation in Colombo next Thursday.