{"id":111852,"date":"2021-02-20T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111852"},"modified":"2021-02-20T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T22:58:48","slug":"sri-lanka-prepared-to-face-core-groups-resolution-at-unhrc-dinesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/20\/sri-lanka-prepared-to-face-core-groups-resolution-at-unhrc-dinesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka prepared to face Core Group\u2019s resolution at UNHRC &#8211; Dinesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is prepared to face the Core Group\u2019s resolution to be presented at the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Dinesh Gunawardena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks came during the Ada Derana \u2018Big Focus\u2019 talk show earlier today (February 20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Issuing a statement yesterday, the Core Group on Sri Lanka \u2013 consisting of UK, Canada, Germany, North Macedonia, Malawi, and Montenegro \u2013 revealed its plans to take forward a further resolution to promote reconciliation, accountability and human rights in the island nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They stressed that there is an \u2018ongoing importance\u2019 of addressing Sri Lanka in the Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Core Group reiterated that more needs to be done to address the \u2018harmful legacies of war\u2019 and build sustainable peace in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the facts in favor of the resolution put forward by the High Commissioner for Human Rights can never be implemented in accordance with the Constitution of this country, said Minister Gunawardena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned this with regard to the report published by the UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet in late January, calling for an International Criminal Court investigation into Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil separatist conflict and sanctions on military officials accused of war crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gunawardena pointed out that there can be no foreign judges in the courts of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on allies who would stand with Sri Lanka to oppose such a resolution, the Foreign Minister said, Forty-seven countries represent the Human Rights Council. Out of these 47, countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have given a very friendly response towards Sri Lanka. So far, the vast majority have exchanged views with us. However, we have not yet seen the final draft of this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka is prepared to face the Core Group\u2019s resolution to be presented at the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Dinesh Gunawardena. His remarks came during the Ada Derana \u2018Big Focus\u2019 talk show earlier today (February 20). Issuing a statement yesterday, the Core Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}