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UNP: US resolution not inimical to Sri Lanka
March 23, 2012, 10:10 pm

by Franklin R. Satyapalan Dasun Edirisinghe and By Ravi Ladduwahetty

United National Party Kandy District MP and the Party s Foreign Affairs spokesman Lakshman Kiriella yesterday said that the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the just concluded sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva was not inimical to this country.

'This is certainly not inimical to Sri Lanka and this is for the benefit of all Sri Lankans,' Kiriella told The Island last night.

He said that the resolution had referred to the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) which stressed the need to investigate widespread allegations of extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances, reevaluate detention policies demilitarization of the North of Sri Lanka, implement land resolution mechanisms, reach a political settlement of the devolution of power and a host of others which were good for the country.

' Don t you think that it is good to stop extra judicial killings or do you think that these killings should go on?' he queried.

'This is what we have been telling the government in parliament and outside, which the government did not heed. If it had listened to us, it would not have been in this predicament and the implementation of the LLRC was exactly what we also wanted the government to do,' he said

In 2009, the country emerged victorious at the UNHRC sessions, but this time around it had lost many friends internationally and had to lose the resolution,Kirielle said. 'It is of no use talking of the past, now the time has come for us to see how we could get out of this situation.'

The MP said if the government failed to implement what it had been asked to, the terms of the resolution would invite further trouble by way of an international probe followed by its economic consequences.

The Kandy District MP said that in keeping with the resolution the country had to first implement the LLRC recommendations and secondly inquire into serious human rights violations allegedly committed during the last stages of the war. 'So, if we don t implement the resolution there is a danger of an international inquiry by the United Nations,' he warned, adding that if the government did not implement the UNHRC resolution it would be inviting an international inquiry and certainly as a country SriLanka had to honour the resolution whether it liked it or not.

The way to go....we can afford to do this because we have China & Russia on our side in the UN security council.

Eelampimp finally got a RAJA yoga...

Lakshman Kiriella

Raja already closer with china, will more closermake the whole lankan loser

will more closermake the

No doubt, MODA RAJA is asking for more trouble.


These very threats brought Sri Lanka to where she is at right now.

Balamuko Ma'lu Ka'te diplomacy e'ka karana he'tti.