Transparency and equality in human rights arena
Sri Lanka is a senior member of the great United
Nations in which she has performed par excellence as one time leader
of the Non-Alignment Movement and currently a country that adores
and practices Non-alignment and friendly bonds with all the nations
small and powerful. It has taken over 60 years for the United
Nations to shape it up, which is being restructured through the
process of conventions and practices. Sri Lanka as a most senior
member enjoys the benefit of the world body sharing it with the
citizens and the neighbours. She is active in SAARC and the United
Nations subsidiary bodies,
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Unnatural selectivity
Last year, when the government of Haiti decided
to allow deposed former President Bertrand Aristide to return,
President Obama himself telephoned President Jacob Zuma of South
Africa (where Aristide had obtained sanctuary), informed him of his
‘deep concerns’ about the return and asked him to prevent it.
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Allow unimpeded reconciliation:
A bold call for objectivity by Sri Lanka
As the debate in Geneva goes on with that city
of diplomacy and Western culture being transformed into a phony
pilgrim centre for pro-terrorist Tamil activists from many parts of
Europe gathering there to keep the pressure on Western leaders, a US
federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against President
Mahinda Rajapaksa, by similar activists, noting that President
Rajapaksa is immune from lawsuits as a sitting Head of State. The
Associated Press report on the case by ABC News said a US judge
threw out a lawsuit Wednesday against Sri Lanka's President,
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