The Sri Lankan ministerial delegation attending the 19th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council beginning later this month has left for Geneva, Switzerland today.
The ministerial delegation led by the External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris includes Plantation Minister and President's Special Human Rights Envoy Mahinda Samarasinghe, Ministers Nimal Siripala De Silva and Anura Priyadarshana Yapa.
Sri Lanka is preparing to face a resolution that is to be presented against the country at the UNHRC sessions scheduled to begin on February 27 and the high level delegation is ready to face any challenges at the sessions, the government has said.
The resolution to be presented at the UNHRC notes that Sri Lanka has failed to implement the reconciliation measures recommended by the country's own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and calls for Sri Lanka to take more concrete actions towards reconciliation and especially, addressing the accountability issue and implementing the recommendations put forward by the LLRC.
The United States has said that it will support the resolution to pressure the Sri Lankan government to take prompt measures to implement the LLRC recommendations and address the accountability issues.
Sri Lanka says it needs more time to implement the LLRC recommendations as it has been only two months since the LLRC report was released to the parliament on December 16, 2011.
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