{"id":48414,"date":"2015-10-03T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T23:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48414"},"modified":"2015-10-03T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T23:18:25","slug":"sri-lanka-submits-to-us-diktat-un-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/10\/03\/sri-lanka-submits-to-us-diktat-un-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka submits to US diktat &#8211; UN RESOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Nation<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Sri Lankan Government co-sponsored the US led resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) without contesting the draft resolution, despite a pledge made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe to media heads last week that Sri Lanka would seek amendments to the preamble.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, speaking with heads of media institutions and editors last Sunday (September 27), stated that the Government is in agreement with the operational paragraphs of the draft resolution, but was discussing amendments to the preamble.<\/p>\n<p>However, in response to a query made by The Nation, Sri Lanka\u2019s Permanent Representative in Geneva, Ravinatha Aryasinha said \u2018no changes\u2019 had been made to the draft after September 24 as no changes had been sought. Aryasinha added this was the draft that was passed by consensus last Thursday (October 1).\u00a0 Critics of the Resolution have argued that it compromises Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereignty and facilitates unnecessary interference in the country\u2019s judicial affairs.<\/p>\n<p>UNHRC Resolution A\/HRC\/30\/L.29 entitled \u2018Promoting reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka,\u2019 was presented by a \u2018Core Group\u2019 of sponsors led by the United States. The other countries in the group included the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Nation The Sri Lankan Government co-sponsored the US led resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) without contesting the draft resolution, despite a pledge made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe to media heads last week that Sri Lanka would seek amendments to the preamble. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, speaking with heads [&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-48414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48414","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=48414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}