UN resolution, a misplaced initiative – Kariyawasam

The resolution passed at the UNHRC is a misplaced initiative and it is already having a negative reaction in Sri Lanka and vitiating the atmosphere for us to go forward in our agenda of reconciliation and also in promoting Human Rights, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in India, Prasad Kariyawasam, said.

“In Geneva at least it is ‘megaphone diplomacy’ that is on and it is being done with the aim of naming-and-shaming Sri Lanka,” the High Commissioner said in an interview with Outlook India.

Referring to the prevailing situation Tamil Nadu, the High Commissioner said: “This is very unfortunate. The root-cause of this crisis is extra-regional and nothing to do with our region. It’s because of a resolution by the US at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

In our view that initiative, both in substance and procedure, is uncalled for because it is not going to help the ground situation in Sri Lanka.

“In terms of rehabilitation and reconstruction we have gone far ahead. We have achieved a lot which has in fact been acknowledged by the international community.

But we do understand that in terms of the reconciliation process we still have several objectives to achieve.”