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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12357269" data-attributes="member: 92282">China on Thursday expressed its strong opposition to a  proposed United States-backed resolution at the United Nations Human  Rights Council (UNHRC) calling on Sri Lanka to address rights  violations, describing it as a move to “impose pressure.”Ahead  of the crucial vote in Geneva, the Chinese government went as far as  saying that Sri Lanka had made “great strides” in promoting human rights  and towards achieving national reconciliation, underscoring its support  to an under-pressure Sri Lankan government.“We  oppose using a country-specific human rights resolution to impose  pressure,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei told reporters on  Thursday. “We believe the Sri Lankan government and people are capable  of handling their own affairs.”China’s backing to  Colombo comes despite widespread global concerns, including in India  that the government had done far from enough following the end of the  war to address Tamil concerns and investigate war crimes.With  India likely to back the resolution and move away from its earlier  opposition to country-specific resolutions, China has emerged as the  lone voice of major support for the embattled Sri Lankan government.Mr. Hong said China believed that “dialogue and cooperation is the fundamental way out for the human rights dispute”.“In  recent years, in terms of promoting human rights and realising national  reconciliation, Sri Lanka has made great strides,” he said.China’s  view, he added, was that the international community should play “a  constructive role” in helping Sri Lanka achieve stability.Chinese  officials have reiterated their support to the Sri Lankan government in  recent months even as it has come under rising pressure from the  international community to investigate human rights violations.China’s  growing ties with Sri Lanka, marked by increasing financial and  military support, have emerged as a source of concern in India.The  two countries pledged to deepen their strategic ties earlier this month  when Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa visited Beijing.Mr.  Rajapaksa “expressed thanks for China’s support in the process of Sri  Lanka ending the civil war and pushing reconstruction and development,”  the official Xinhua news agency quoted him as telling Chinese Defence  Minister Liang Guanglie. China boosted its military support to Sri Lanka  during the closing stages of the war.Mr. Liang  stressed that China “will continue to support Sri Lanka’s efforts in  safeguarding state independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity”.The Hindu</blockquote>

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