Outcome of Geneva vote :

Lanka cautiously optimistic

Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Tamara Kunanayakam observed with regard to the potential outcome of the vote on the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka that “we should not underestimate or overestimate our capacity. The battle will have to be fought to the very last minute”.

She stressed that “a resolution on Sri Lanka will, many feel, be the ultimate test of the Council’s politicization. It will make it or break it.”

In a wide ranging interview, she explained the motivations of the West and mostly the United States for pushing a resolution against Sri Lanka. “What, in fact, are the US trying to tell us with their draft resolution? They are not saying that our LLRC report is bad.

They are not saying that there is gross and systematic violations of human rights in Sri Lanka. What they are saying is that they don’t have confidence that we will implement the recommendations.

They are judging our intentions, not the ground reality.” She said this is unacceptable to most countries, because it gives a role to the Council that was never intended. “Moreover, there is a general feeling that Sri Lanka is being punished for cooperating.” Courtesy:

Asian Tribune