By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : India today said it would work with Sri Lankan government to ensure resettlement of 3,00,000 people displaced in the northern region which has been freed from the LTTE and was keen to see revival of the political process there.
“We continue to work with the Sri Lankan government to ensure the resettlement of all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),” External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said in a statement in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House).
In a suo motu statement on recent developments in northern Sri Lanka, he said it was crucial that nearly 3,00,000 IDPs were given immediate humanitarian attention and that urgent steps were taken to resettle them in their original places of habitation.
He informed the House that after India conveyed its concern over the issue, Sri Lanka government had “agreed that bulk of the IDPs” would be resettled within 180 days.