UK to support US resolution against Sri Lanka
February 6, 2013 05:04 pm
British Foreign
and Commonwealth Office Minister for South Asia Alistair Burt has confirmed
that the British government will support a United States sponsored resolution
on Sri Lanka at United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva later
next month, foreign media reported.
Responding to questions on a solution to the ethnic issue Burt said UK will
continue to urge the Sri Lankan Government and the major Tamil party, Tamil
National Alliance to make serious progress towards a political settlement in the
country.
US has recently announced bringing a procedural resolution against Sri Lanka’s
human rights record and non-implementation of its own Lessons Learnt and
Reconciliation Commission Report.
Both the US and Sri Lanka have claimed that it expects India to vote in their
favour on the issue.
