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Brown speaks to President, Swedish FM not coming
It said Britains International Development Minister Mike Foster would be visiting Sri Lanka to conduct a humanitarian assessment.
President Rajapaksa had invited Des Browne and a cross-party group of British MPs to visit soon, while Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake welcomed the visit of Sir John Holmes, the UN Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs to Sri Lanka the British HC said
Although the British High Commission said that British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, together with his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner and Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt, will visit Sri Lanka on Wednesday, it is understood that the Swedish Foreign Minister will not do so as he had been informed that the time is not appropriate for such a visit. He would be welcome to visit Sri Lanka in May.
