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Chair of IPU Committee on Human Rights visits Sri Lanka President
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 14:30 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Feb 21, Colombo: Senator Sharon Carstairs of Canada, who chairs the
Committee on Human Rights of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), called on
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa this evening at Temple Trees in
Colombo.
IPU Secretary General Anders B. Johnson, Secretary of the Human Rights
Committee Ingeborg Schwarz, Sri Lankan Human Rights Minister Mahinda
Samarasinghe, and President's Secretary Lalith Weeratunga were also present
at the meeting.