US resolution likely to be deferred – Ranil
The government was negotiating with the US on the resolution at the UNHRC calling for accountability and reconciliation issues in Sri Lanka and it might not be put to vote this week, UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe told the UNP parliamentary group meeting in Colombo, according to party sources.
Wickremesinghe said that the resolution was to be deferred on the strict condition that the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime undertook to speedily implement the LLRCs recommendations which inter alia call for the re-establishment of the independent police, election, public and judicial service commissions required to enforce the rule of law and safeguard human rights.
The government by rejecting all overtures by the UN, had placed the country and its people in the present predicament, Wickremesinghe said, adding that it was good to hear of a change in attitude even at this late stage.
Lakshman Kiriella MP said that the preamble to the US Resolution did not refer just to the last stages of the war and the killing of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakarn’s teenage son but to abductions and killings committed nearly three years after the LTTE was defeated.
The US Resolution was based on the Rajapaksa regimes assurance to the last UNHRC session that the LLRC recommendations would be implemented and the rule of law implemented, Kiriella said. It should not make the Opposition a scapegoat for its arrogance and stupidity, he told the UNPgroup.
Courtesy: The Island
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Hi.. hi..! Well come after being silenced by $…../=
wonderful man who get paid for doing nothing..! What a lucky guy..?!
the worst ever srilankan politition,our tiny land does not need such a traitors….
One of the very few gentleman politicians in the country who accepted defeat soon after the elections.
Ranil, By ten miles you are the biggest disaster the Royal college produced in its many years of existence. But don’t worry, when the yankees decide to get rid of Rajapaksha at ANY cost, you will be their favourite. Just hang on there. Yankees would not give a monkey about human rights or lives of Sri lankans. I was a university student during the time of Junius. The time people dissapeared in Pajeros and dead bodies were burning on tyres and the students activists decapitated heads found around a university pond. When the UNP killers, army, police were doing those, were the yankees, EU and the rest going to bring the resolution against SL on Friday live in another planet? I don’t think sri lankans are even pissing these days facing the direction of you or the UNP.
Tanya..!
…one of few genital-less men who accepted defeat forever…
H ey Indra,
Rw remains the last living decent politician in our emerald isle. He is an outstanding product of the old school royal college.
Of course, he has stored “chains & bracelets” (might made in US) also in bulks yet to distribute among the people after he wins an election..!
Hi Federick,
Certainly outstanding in terms of what he said when the SL army captured Thoppigala at the initial stages of the war.
Just give him a dose of some IQ.
Ask hime to (and his supporters) take note of what people in other countries in the world do when faced with similar situations like what is going to happen on Friday. They stand together.
Have you forgotten these Geneva resolution sponsoringg countries turnrd a blind eye to LTTE fund raisinfg and weapons procument? What right they have to punish SL on human rights when we see the number of lives lost in Iraq after the US/NATO invasion to to now and the carnage in Syria. Who gives weapons to the Syrian rebels? Where are the human rights in Libya and Afganisthan now? Well restored?