The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is to visit Jaffna next week, as part of a visit to Sri Lanka.
The 3 day visit will include discussions with the Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena and prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe on August 31.
"While in Sri Lanka, the Secretary General will also visit a resettlement site in Jaffna in north of the country and participate in an event on the role of youth in reconciliation and coexistence in Galle, in the south of the island," his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters on Wednesday.