The International Committee of the Red Cross says Sri Lanka has told it to scale back operations in the country.
"They have commmunicated that the war is now over," a spokesman told the BBC, referring to years of bloody conflict between troops and Tamil Tiger rebels.
The news comes amid continuing concern over the fate of hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced by the war.
As a first step the ICRC is to pull expatriate staff out of the east "while winding down operations in the area".
Government troops defeated the rebels in the east after months of heavy fighting.
The full scale of casualties is still disputed - hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and are now in government-run camps.
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