SL asks UN not to interfere in internal affairs

May 24, 2010 03:27 pm

Sri Lankatoday asked UN Chief Ban Ki-moon not to interfere in its internal affairs and not to go ahead with the probe into alleged war crimes by its army against the defeated LTTE, amidst an international clamour by rights groups for an independent inquiry.

“...There is no justification legal or moral for this step (UN probe) to be taken at this time,” Foreign Minister G L Peiris told PTI in New York ahead of his maiden meeting with Ban.

“Don’t complicate matters at this stage. It’s not going to do any good. It has the potential of doing real harm in a situation where the government of Sri Lanka, against overwhelming odds, is trying to move the processes forward,” he said.

^PTI

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