Disarming the armed groups; transferring civil administration to Tamil speaking police and divesting forces of civil security tasks are possible - Blake

Wednesday 14 of September 2011


LLRC should examine Moon’s Darusman report
(Lanka-e-News -14.Sep.2011, 11.00P.M.) ‘America is not a country that offers any threats to any country. We are there to help develop the countries. We are having a great faith in the final report of the Lessons learnt and reconciliation Commission (LLRC). We are paying a lot of attention to it. We expect the LLRC to examine the Dharusman report of the UN Secretary general . We believe that we will receive the answers for many of the questions’ – Robert O Blake , the Assist. State Secretary of US in charge of South and Central Asia made these comments when answering a question raised by a media personnel at a media discussion he participated today in Colombo in his last leg of his Sri Lanka tour.
The question posed by the journalist was whether US is pressurizing SL?

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US announces resumption of Govt-TNA talks

Blake alleges EPDP attempted to hamper his meeting with Jaffna Uni. students

September 14, 2011

 By Shamindra Ferdinando

 The government and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will resume talks on      devolution and other contentious issues soon.

 The announcement was made by visiting US Assistant Secretary of State Robert  O. Blake at the end of his three-day visit to Colombo and Jaffna.

 The former US Ambassador in Colombo, Blake said the talks were crucial for post-war Sri Lanka. He asserted that talks could resume as early as this week.

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