Post Tagged with: "UNHRC"
‘Nothing to hide, or to cover up’
(Srilankamirror) – The government says it is ready to favourably consider a request for a visit by the UNHRC, since Sri Lanka has nothing to hide or to cover up. Foreign secretary Karunatilake Amunugama has told state-run ‘Dinamina’ that UN human rights chief Navi Pillai was expected to send a representative to the island. However, [...]
‘India did not want to ‘infringe’ on Sri Lanka’s sovereignty’
(Srilankamirror) – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says his country’s vote against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC was in line with its stand and wanted to ensure that concern was expressed to enable minority Tamils in that country to get justice. Singh also said India did not want to “infringe” on the sovereignty of Sri [...]
Hillary says will now meet GL
Srilankamirror – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she will meet External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris soon to discuss the outcome of the vote on the resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). A statement by Clinton’s office said that yesterday’s action by the UNHRC encourages the Government of Sri [...]
Geneva vote on Sri Lanka at 2.30 pm tomorrow
(Srilankamirror) – The vote on the US-led resolution on Sri Lanka will take place at the UNHRC in Geneva, Switzerland at 2.30 pm Sri Lanka time tomorrow (Mar. 21). According to diplomatic sources, the vote will take place following a 90-minute long debate on the resolution that urges the Sri Lankan government to take speedy [...]
Hundreds of Lankans protest outside US embassy in London
(Srilankamirror) – Hundreds of peace loving Sri Lankan expatriates converged outside the American Embassy in London on March 11 to protest the US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Assembled in front of the American Embassy for a peaceful demonstration, which was organised by the British Sri Lankan [...]
Lankan delegation to Geneva to be headed by G.L.
(Srilankamirror) – The Sri Lankan delegation in Geneva will be led by external affairs minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, when the UNHRC session begins a debate on the US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka today (Mar. 13), state-run ‘Dinamina’ reports. At the commencement of the session, minister Mahinda Samarasinghe was the head of the delegation and it [...]
Why Geneva and not Matara, Jaffna or Batti?: Kusal Perera
Srilankamirror – Thousands of Tamils from across Europe protested in front of UN headquarters in Geneva Monday demanding the creation of an international tribunal to try “war crimes” committed in Sri Lanka…. [AFP report, 6 March 2012]
‘We look at restorative justice, not retributive justice’
(Srilankamirror) – Sri Lanka’s high commissioner in New Delhi Prasad Kariyawasam says that after defeating an abominable terrorist group three years ago, Sri Lanka wants a path of reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation. “For that purpose we were looking at what we call restorative justice not retributive justice,” he has told NDTV in an interview in [...]
Patil’s no mention of Lanka resolution dismays DMK
(Srilankamirror) – India’s DMK party has expressed dismay over the absence of any mention of plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka in president Pratibha Patil’s address to Parliament today (Mar. 12). DMK leader T. R. Baalu told reporters after the President’s address that India should support the US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka. “There was no [...]
US tries to interfere with Lanka’s territorial integrity
(Srilankamirror) – Defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has accused the US of interfering with the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka. Speaking at a function in Maharagama, he said the allegations against Sri Lanka before the UNHRC were unreasonable. The defence secretary went onto say the government was rehabilitating even the families of the LTTE members, including [...]
Lankans in France too, protest against US resolution
(Srilankamirror) – The US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC has been condemned by Sri Lankan expatriates in France. The Sri Lankans gathered at Place De La Trocadero near the Eiffel Tower in Paris for the peaceful demonstration. They handed over a petition to the US ambassador in France, demanding that their motherland be [...]
Counter resolution from Sri Lanka to the UNHRC?
(Srilankamirror) – The government is considering the introduction of a counter resolution against the US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the ongoing UNHRC session in Geneva, ‘Irida Lakbima’ reports. Experts on international law have advised the government on this, says the newspaper. One of them, Dr. Pratibha Mahanamahewa, has said that there was a likelihood [...]
Are we not friends? Mohan Peiris asks US
(Srilankamirror) – Speaking at a consultative side event organized by the US mission on draft submitted by them, Sri Lanka’s former attorney general and legal advisor to the cabinet Mohan Peiris said , “I ask US – we are with you for promotion and protection of human rights but we are only saying, by all [...]
Karunanidhi urges India to back resolution on Sri Lanka
(Srilankamirror) – India should declare support for the US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka in the ongoing UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva, said DMK president M. Karunanidhi today (Mar. 09). “The tears have not dried up. If those in the Central government watched those visuals just once they would realise the importance of the [...]
‘Watered down US resolution is an attempt to bailout Sri Lanka’ say observers
Srilankamirror – Much awaited draft resolution on Sri Lanka which was tabled by the USA at the UNHRC on Wednesday was seen by many observers as a diluted and watered-down version of the previously leaked draft resolution to the media. The resolution which was seen as an “unnecessary interference” against the sovereignty of the country [...]
