U.N. to close UNDP office in Sri Lanka amid demonstration
NEW YORK, July 8 (AP) – (Kyodo)—U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said Thursday that he is closing the U.N. Development Program Regional Center in Colombo in light of ongoing protests there against the world body.
In a statement, Ban strongly criticized the Sri Lankan government, saying he “finds it unacceptable that the Sri Lankan authorities have failed to prevent the disruption of the normal functioning of the United Nations offices in Colombo” as a result of the protests led by a Cabinet minister of the ruling coalition.
Ban also said he is recalling U.N. Resident Coordinator Neil Buhne to New York for consultations.
The demonstrators in Colombo prevented movement of staff and visitors in and out of the U.N. complex at one point earlier this week.
Kyodo
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U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon why don’t you appoint a panel to investigate alleged war crimes all around the world by Terrorist, LTTE, US Government, UK Government, and NATO?
U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon is UN’s vision and mission to destroy small developing countries on be half of betterment of big countries by supporting Terrorism?
Please U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon, do not interfere internal affairs of Sri Lanka and do not put the blame on the political leaders, security forces and nation of Sri Lanka for eliminating World Brutal Terrorist organization named LTTE from our mother land Sri Lanka to create a peaceful developing country!
Please U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon, do not try destroying small countries!
Sri Lanka did condemned September 11th Attack on Twin Towers (World Trade Centre) of USA, because Sri Lankans know the pains of human.
U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon is closing the U.N. Development Program Regional Center in Colombo to stop development of Sri Lanka mean while supporting terrorism all around the world?
U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon why don’t you appoint a panel to investigate alleged war crimes all around the world by Terrorist, LTTE, Al Qaeda, US Government, UK Government, and NATO?
Instead of that U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon going to appoint a panel to investigate elimination of world brutal Terrorist organization LTTE and punish legitimate Sri Lankan government and Sri Lankans!!!
U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon is UN’s vision and mission to destroy small developing countries on be half of betterment of big countries by supporting Terrorism?
Please U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon, do not interfere internal affairs of Sri Lanka and do not put the blame on the political leaders, security forces and nation of Sri Lanka for eliminating World Brutal Terrorist organization named LTTE from our mother land Sri Lanka to create a peaceful developing country!
Please U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon, do not try destroying small countries!
Sri Lanka did condemned September 11th Attack on Twin Towers (World Trade Centre) of USA, because Sri Lankans know the pains of human.
U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moon is closing the U.N. Development Program Regional Center in Colombo to stop development of Sri Lanka mean while supporting terrorism all around the world?
U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki Moons role and responsibilities are not clear to us in UN…
This peaceful protest and fast led by Wimal Weeravansa is not against the UN General Assembly or against the Security Council or against UNESCO who overwhelmingly endorsed Sri Lanka’s humanitarian War of Liberation to save more than 300,000 of our Tamil Sri Lankan citizens from the cruel clutches of LTTE terrorism led by an evil despot who like a feudal lord held them captive for 30 years to breed like cattle for him children for his war effort and to grow food for him. Our Brave President put a full stop to this evil terrorists despite the imperial West’s flagrant support to save the terrorists for their own evil agenda in SE Asia.
Wimal’s peaceful protest is against Ban Ki-Moon’s despotic decision to elect a panel of bigots to interfere on internal matters in Sri Lanka to draw-up a false biased report against Sri Lankan President, the Defence Secretary and certain heroic army officers, of war crimes and crimes against humanity where there were none. This is at the persistent behest of his masters, the yankee imperial USA and imperial Britain, who cannot bear to accept that Sri Lanka was able to totally vanquish the world’s most fierce terrorist group, the LTTE, who introduced the suicide bomb and the car bomb so effectively used in Iraq and Afghanistan by Bin Laden and the Taleban. Imperial West’s agenda for domination of SE Asia through LTTE was therefore squashed effectively. All this hue and cry of non-existent war crimes etc by Ban Ki-Moon in his dying days as Secretary General is corrupt electioneering by him for a second term in office through the endorsement of the imperial West. This wicked man has no moral conscience. He is utterly corrupt. He is a puppet of the imperial West. He is totally partisan. He has turned a blind eye to the huge war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by USA, Britain and Israel in the past 60 years and continues to be committed.
Wimal Weerawansa’s fast unto death is therefore a heroic effort to compel Ban Ki-Moon to withdraw his bogus panel of imperial West leaning pimps in interfering in the internal affairs of our sovereign nation. His cry is against Ban Ki-Moon. We endorse the effort of peaceful demonstration and fast led by WW to dissolve this bogus panel and sack Ban Ki-moon and Navi Pillai from their UN posts immediately for their corrupt partisan declarations and despotic behaviour. We have no faith in these two for their flagrant abuse of thir offices. We call for a new UN Secretary General who will be impartial and call for immediate inquiry against USA and Britain for their war ctrimes and crimes against humanity.
MR. MADAWANSA REST IN PEASE