UN panel deadline extended

[January 14 2011]

The UN panel probing into allege war crimes during the final stages of the battle against LTTE terrorism gets the deadline extended until end of February.

The three member panel which was appointed by the UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon was supposed to finalize its report by tomorrow.

The Spokesperson for the UNSG Martin Nesirky told the media that the panel will be given more days to submit their final report.