Sri Lanka summons UN official

Published May 8, 2007

COLOMBO, May 7: Sri Lanka on Monday summoned a top UN food agency official and accused the organisation for trying to shield “the criminal acts” of Tamil Tiger rebels.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama summoned World Food Programme Country

Director, Jeff Taft-Dick, to complain that the agency had failed to report the abduction of two of its staff by Tamil Tiger rebels.

The two local aid workers were abducted early last month while carrying out relief work in the rebel-held territory of Kilinochchi, 330 kilometres north of Colombo.—AFP

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