'Anti- Lanka resolution totally unwarranted'

Chaminda PERERA

The government yesterday insisted that the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka is totally unwarranted at a time when the government is in the process of implementing the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).

The government's response came few hours after the US moved a resolution against Sri Lanka at the 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.

According to Foreign Ministry Additional Secretary Sarath Dissanayake, the government views the US move against Sri Lanka as an external intervention into the country's internal issues at a time when the government has expedited the implementation of the LLRC recommendations.

He said that Sri Lanka has made many achievements in the fields of resettlement, rehabilitation and reconciliation in the aftermath of 30 years of conflict.

Dissanayake said that the Sri Lankan delegation in Geneva will apprise member countries of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that moving a resolution against Sri Lanka at this point of time is totally uncalled for as the government is committed to the implementation of the LLRC recommendations.

Dissanayake told the Daily News that members of the Sri Lankan delegation will inform UNHRC members how the government has succeeded in implementing the recommendations of the Commission appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to promote reconciliation in the aftermath of three decades of conflict.