Please find attached a copy of the January 1997 Ministry of Foreign Affairs report entitled Aide Memoire. This report describes humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts in the North, humanitarian relief in the Vanni region, and the human rights situation in Jaffna, among other topics.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Sri Lanka. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombo. January 1997. Aide Memoire, pp. 1-17.