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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12969146" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Msc2011_SZ_004_Menon_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Msc2011_SZ_004_Menon_%28cropped%29.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />India’s National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon has made it clear to  the Sri Lankan top brass that New Delhi’s stance at the Universal  Periodic Review (UPR) of Sri Lanka’s human rights record at the UN Human  Rights Council (UNHRC) in November will depend entirely on what Colombo  does to improve its human rights image, the Indian Express reported.Menon’s refrain that the issues of ethnic reconciliation and political  settlement of the Tamil question in Lanka are matters to be settled by  Sri Lankans only can be interpreted to mean that Lanka cannot count on  blind backing from India at the UNHRC, where it is expected to come  under intense scrutiny. India has a crucial role to play in the UPR because it is one of the  three countries charged with the responsibility of overseeing the  proceedings, the other two being  Spain and Benin. The Sri Lankan top brass and the Lankan media are under the mistaken  impression that India voted against Lanka at the 19th session of the  UNHRC because it had become a victim of TN politics and not because it  had any grievance against Lanka. The other explanation was that India  got annoyed when the leader of the Lankan delegation, Mahinda  Samarasinghe, prematurely declared that India had assured support to  Lanka. Sri Lankans were not aware that New Delhi itself had grievances against  the Lankan government and that the negative Indian vote was but an  expression of its displeasure with Colombo. In 2009, the Lankan government had explicitly promised to effectively  implement the devolution package contained in the 13th amendment of  Lanka’s own constitution. But it was not kept.</blockquote>

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