The Office of Missing Persons (OMP), which was under the President, has been gazetted under National Unity and Coexistence State Minister A. H. M. Fowzie.
Issuing an Extraordinary Gazette on Thursday, President Maithripala Sirisena has assigned the OMP to State Minister Fowzie for administrative purposes.
The OMP was previously under the purview of the President as he is also the National Integration and Reconciliation Minister. The Gazette to operationalise the OMP was signed by the President in September 2017.
The seven Commissioners of the OMP commenced its outreach programme with meetings in Mannar and Matara in May. OMP is to meet families of the disappeared and civil society in Mullaithivu, Puthukuduirippu, Maritime Paththu, Thunukkai, Manthai East,Weli Oya and Oddusudan today.
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