The visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia, Robert O Blake today called for early resettlement of the remaining war displaced Tamil civilians in the north as one of the measures to bring about reconciliation in the country in the post war scenario. Blake who is on a day’s visit to Sri Lanka told reporters that the country now has a unique opportunity to forge lasting peace and prosperity after decades of war.”Achieving reconciliation will be a key element in such peace”, he said. He maintained that more steps can be taken to improve the reconciliation process in the country. “One part of achieving reconciliation will be to finish resettling all internally displaced persons as soon as possible”, he said. “Another key part of reconciliation will be to assure accountability to redress just wrongs”, Blake said, “A last pillar of reconciliation will be to advance democracy and human rights”, he said.The comments of Mr. Blake assume in the light of the recent tiff between Sri Lanka and the UN over the decision of the world body’s Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to appoint a three member experts panel to advice him on accountability aspects of the alleged excesses in the last phase of the war between the island nation’s security forces and the LTTE which ended in May year.The US Assistant Secretary, who was Washington’s envoy in Sri Lanka prior to his current assignment, said that during his breakfast meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa he had discussed the subject of power sharing along with several other issues.President’s House sources said that the two sides examined ways and means of further strengthening bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and the United States and identified several areas for the expansion of bilateral cooperation.The US Assistant Secretary offered to increase training facilities for Sri Lankan officials and others in the United States.Blake is scheduled to visit the Maldives tomorrow and hold discussions with both leaders of the opposition and the ruling combine on the recent political crisis in the country.AIR correspondent reports, Robert Blake, who was Washington’s envoy in Sri Lanka prior to his current assignment today said that Colombo needs to take more steps to encourage greater reconciliation and democracy in the post war period and also noted the need for improvement in media freedom.The visiting assistant Secretary of State observed that achieving reconciliation will be a key element in achieving lasting peace . Blake said that one part of achieving reconciliation will be to finish resettling all internally displaced person as soon as possible.He also referred to accountability and human rights as being other key part of the reconciliation process.The US official, who met President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning, said that the President understands the need for power sharing and wants to go forward.Blake also said that ‘The US believes that the recently appointed UN panel can play an important advisory role with Sri Lanka’s commission’. The panel , he said, is only an advisory in nature and does not have an investigative role.