{"id":48027,"date":"2015-09-19T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48027"},"modified":"2015-09-19T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:26:16","slug":"ohrc-report-hundred-times-more-severe-but-for-regime-change-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/09\/19\/ohrc-report-hundred-times-more-severe-but-for-regime-change-president\/","title":{"rendered":"OHRC report hundred times more severe but for regime change: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>No CEPA talks in India says Ranil<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article_date\">September 19, 2015, 8:13 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/1320525854SI-P01-20-09-(P)-DMP-17.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Maithripala Sirisena Friday said that the report of High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva would have been hundred times more severe than it was but for the regime change of January 8 this year.<\/p>\n<p>The president, flanked by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, was addressing publishers, editors and other media heads at a hurriedly summoned meeting following the release of the report from the OHCR in Geneva last week. External Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera and Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe were associated with the president and premier.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena said that it was best that these issues are resolved by a government &#8220;that did not include Mahinda Rajapaksa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe said that there had been no discussions whatever on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between Sri Lanka and India during his visit to India last week.<\/p>\n<p>The media was told that the approach of various countries that had been earlier adversarial to Sri Lanka on war related issues had now softened considerably as evidenced by high level visits here by ranking US officials this year.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Samaraweera expressed confidence that the resolution on Sri Lanka to be adopted by UNHRC at the end of this month will be favorable.<\/p>\n<p>It was also indicated at the meeting that the government would respond to the demand for the reintroduction of the death penalty for grave and heinous crimes if that was the wish of Parliament. MPs would be given a free vote on this matter and may vote according to their conscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Island No CEPA talks in India says Ranil September 19, 2015, 8:13 pm President Maithripala Sirisena Friday said that the report of High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva would have been hundred times more severe than it was but for the regime change of January 8 this year. The president, flanked by Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48027","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=48027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}