Top Indian officials like foreign secretary Nirupama Rao, national security adviser Shivshankar Menon and defence secretary Pradeep Kumar will be part of the team which is due to arrive on Friday.
With a UN panel report on the LTTE war raising tempers in Sri Lanka, India is sending a high-level delegation here to discuss the "matters arising" from it and to ask the government to address accountability and reconciliation issues.
Top Indian officials like foreign secretary Nirupama Rao, national security adviser Shivshankar Menon and defence secretary Pradeep Kumar will be part of the team which is due to arrive on Friday, The Sunday Times said in a report.
The Indian delegation will discuss the "matters arising from the UN advisory panel report", it said.
The delegation is expected to meet Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the paper said they will urge the government to urgently address the accountability and reconciliation issues discussed in Ban Ki-moon's three-member panel report.
The panel was instituted to study the happenings during the last phase of the war against the LTTE, probe allegations of war crimes and advise the UN chief on the issue.
The report blamed both the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE for war crimes and advocated the setting up of an independent investigation.
The war ended in May 2009 with the killing of the entire top leadership of the LTTE, including its supremo Vellupillai Prabhakaran.
Sri Lanka, which had termed the formation of the panel as an act of interference in its internal affairs, has slammed the report as "biased" and "flawed".
The paper said the visit by the Indian officials assumed greater significance since India had declined to receive a top Sri Lankan delegation in New Delhi any time before June.
However, Sri Lankan external affairs minister GL Peiris will fly to New Delhi on May 16 to meet his counterpart SM Krishna.
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