UN agency working with Sri Lanka to provide relief to displaced

The UN refugee agency is working "closely" with the Sri Lankan government to enable the displaced Tamil civilians, uprooted due to just concluded conflict between the LTTE and the Army, to return to their homes.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners are also working to improve conditions in the camps and stabilising the lives of the displaced people.

Last month, the Government declared that its military operation against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was over, ending more than two decades of fighting.

Some 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are living in 40 emergency shelter sites. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners have erected nearly 9,000 emergency shelters and over 14,000 tents so far, distributed non-food items and carried out protection monitoring activities.

"We continue to work closely with the Government to better respond to the emergency – from central Government level to the local Government officials who are involved with direct assistance activities on the ground," UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday.

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