Akashi speaks on Sri Lanka trip
明石氏、スリランカ情勢を語る = Former United Nations diplomat Yasushi Akashi addresses foreign journalists as he speaks about his recent fact-finding trip to Sri Lanka during his appearance at Tokyo’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. The former UN undersecretary general for public information was sent by the Japanese government to Sri Lanka, where tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped in the last pocket of Tamil Tiger resistance to government forces. (Photo by AFLO) [1080]