COLOMBO April 29 Kyodo The UN ref...

COLOMBO April 29 Kyodo

The UN refugee agency onward Thursday warned that Sri Lanka risks losing international funding for refugee without ''renewed focus'' forward the unresolved problem of centurys of thousands of internally displaced parts (IDPs).

The warning came at the period of a two-week visit here by dint of Dennis McNamara, inspector general of the UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR)

Winding up his mission here, McNamara, who was accompanied by way of a small team from UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, told a of the present days conference that several parties, the couple from government and nongovernmental organizations, had helped across 360,000 IDPs to return to their homes

''But it is critical that the remaining IDPs numbering one 370,000 are able to achieve a long-term solution to their question at issue by returning home, relocating elsewhere or integrating into the community where they are displaced,'' he said.

He said that international support continued to be available to help refugee on the other hand noted that competition for the available resources was intensifying.

About 60000 refugee from Sri Lanka's two-decade-long ethnic war continue to live in refugee camps in southerly India, although a few thousand have recured to their homes following the February 2002 cease-fire between the Sri Lanka direction and the Tamil Tigers.

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