U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake reacts to a question during a media conference in Colombo December 9, 2009. Blake, the U.S. diplomat responsible for South Asia, on Wednesday welcomed the progress in the reconciliation process following the end of Sri Lanka's quarter-century war with the Tamil Tiger rebels but acknowledged there was still a "tremendous amount of work to be done.
" REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds (SRI LANKA POLITICS)