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Proposal to constitute expert panel on Sri Lanka:
Govt objects to UN meddling
Lakshmi DE SILVA
Cabinet Spokesman, Export Development and International Trade
Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said yesterday the Government deplores the
attempt to meddle in the internal affairs of the country by UN Secretary
General Ban K. Moon at a time pro-LTTE groups and lobbies in the West
are working against the country.
“Though the LTTE was defeated militarily on our soil the threat
against Sri Lanka is not over,” he told the weekly Cabinet briefing.
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Top team
Brussels bound
A team of top officials led by Treasury
Secretary Dr. P. B. Jayasundara, Foreign Secretary Romesh
Jayasinghe, Attorney General Mohan Peiris and Justice
Ministry Secretary Suhada Gamlath will leave for Brussels
next Monday to meet EU officials for discussions on a number
of issues, Export Development and International Trade
Minister Prof G.L. Peiris said yesterday. - LdeS |
British Foreign Minister David Milliband addressed the Global Tamil
Forum, an LTTE front organization recently while the LTTE was a banned
terrorist group in the UK, Prof. Peiris noted.
He said three resolutions were moved at the GTF that Milliband
addressed.
One was to bring military leaders before a war crimes tribunal. Two
was an economic blockade preventing the export of apparels, tea and
spices and the third was to get the self-determination rights to people
of the North and East to set up their own separate State, the Minister
said.
“However we will not allow LTTE activists to have their own way. We
have already protested to Ban Ki Moon and objected to his unprecedented
suggestion to appoint a committee of experts to advice him on the
internal affairs of Sri Lanka.
His suggestion was discriminatory as human rights violations in Iraq
or Afghanistan had been overlooked by the UN,” Prof Peiris said.
The UN Charter was adopted in 1947. It did not contain any clause to
interfere in the internal affairs of member countries and Ban Ki Moon’s
move was unwarranted, not in keeping with the Charter and
discriminatory, morally and legally incorrect.
Even during the Presidential election certain UN officials were
trying to interfere in the internal affairs and in this instance it was
a clear case of discrimination, he said. |
