Sources from Colombo said While Ms.Arbour who is the third high profile UN official to visit Srilankla ,this year insisted at a joint news conference in Colombo that co-operation between the Government and the OHCHR needs to move away from technical support to a more direct presence, the Minister insisted the Government was unwilling to discuss these two issues.

She further said that "there are a large number of reported killings, abductions and disappearances which remain unresolved... While the government pointed to several initiatives it has taken to address these issues, there has yet to be an adequate and credible public accounting for the vast majority of these incidents."said the UN high commissioner Arbour

Louise Arbour, further said when she met with the Civil Monitoring Committee leader Mano Ganeshan, Jaffna Bishop and the party representing Tamils in the north and east of Sri Lanka, the Tamil National Alliance leaders on Wednesday, she is very unhappy about the rights situations in Sri Lanka as well as the Sri Lankan government denial of permission to visit the LTTE controlled area in the north to meet with them to discuss the rights situations in their area and suggested Sri Lanka should consider the permanent monitoring mission of the United Nations in Sri Lanka to improve the rights situations.

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