Time for lasting peace - UN Chief

Rasika Somarathna in Kandy

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon while welcoming President Mahinda Rajapaksa's call for National Reconciliation, stressed that it was time to heal the wounds inflicted on Sri Lanka by the decades old conflict, and the United Nations was ready to help in any way it can.

Addressing the media at Queen's Hotel in Kandy on Saturday evening, the UN Chief said: "We are here at a defining moment in Sri Lanka's history. A long and terrible conflict has come to an end. Now is the time for the Nation to unite to build just and lasting peace".