UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has extended by a fortnight the deadline for his panel of experts to submit their report on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, days after Colombo agreed to facilitate the members visit to the country.
The Panel of Experts was initially supposed to submit its report by December 15. "The (period of) the submissions to the panel has been extended to the end of this year, from the previous deadline of mid-December," said Farhan Haq, the Deputy Spokesman of the Secretary General.
"They are on track to put out a report on their schedule. I dont have a precise date for when that will happen," Haq said in response to a question at the daily noon briefing held at the UN headquarters in New York.
Haq said the Secretary-General has made it clear that he would review whatever the panel gives him and then decide at that point about making anything public. PTI