Human Rights and Disaster Management Ministry is involved in the drafting of a National Action Plan to promote Human Rights and they also hope to finalize and release the draft by the end of November, an official from the Ministry revealed.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama handed over yesterday, to the Heads of Missions of the EU member states represented in Colombo, individually addressed letters to his counterparts in the EU member countries, together with a copy of the document captioned “Observations of the GOSL in respect of the Report on the findings of the investigation with respect to the effective implementation of certain human rights conventions in Sri Lanka”.

We hear from the media that after the release of General Sarath Fonseka from the American trap, Bogallagama has thanked all the American establishments connected to it including the American ambassador in Sri Lanka.

About 90,000 Sri Lankans displaced by the conflict between Government forces and Tamil separatists have returned to their homes in the past three months, and the pace of returns has begun to accelerate, the United Nations refugee agency reported on Friday.

The ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party is expected to resolve to hold the President election first, followed by the Parliament General elections.