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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12215556" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRjQHYgx7ygwi3zVg7qslQpysa5A4wQ3j8okf4MW3DlJpHs7gyJ" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka, on Friday, came down hard on the UN Human Rights Council  (UNHRC) and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay saying  neither had the authority to demand a debate on the report of the  Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) or the report of  the UN panel of experts. Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva,  Ambassador Tamara Kunanayakam, also said that the Human Rights Council itself was created in response to the politicization, selectivity and  double standards of the former Commission. “The Universal Periodic Review is the appropriate mechanism to  discuss progress made in the promotion and protection of human rights of  all countries. Sri Lanka will be presenting its report during the  second cycle of the UPR in October this year. In the Council, there is  no provision that permits debates and resolutions on processes that did  not generate from the four corners of the institution- building of the  Council,” she said in a hard hitting statement. Her statement came after Pillay referred to Sri Lanka in her  statement on Friday and called upon the UNHRC to address the LLRC report  and the UN expert panel report on Sri Lanka. “We have taken note of the comments made by the High Commissioner  (Navi Pillay) on the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation  Commission and while unreservedly dissenting with the observations of  the High Commissioner on its domestic process vis a vis the UN Secretary  General’s Panel,  we would like to highlight,  at the expense of  repetition, that the LLRC report reflects the emblematic parameters of  rule of law strategies, which have been earnestly taken note of by my  Government  for speedy implementation,” Ambassador Kunanayakam said. She said that a dangerous precedent is again sought to be established  by way of a debate on the recommendations of a domestic process which  Sri Lanka condemns as a retrogressive step that undermines the  constitutional parameters of this Council. “You will appreciate that the panel report that the High Commissioner  referred to, was the culmination of a private consultation that the  Secretary General sought to advise himself and is not the product or a  request of the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly nor any other  UN body. Its mandate did not extend to fact finding or investigation. In  its report the Panel also makes it patently clear that the assertions  set out therein remain unsubstantiated and require a higher standard of  proof,” she added.</blockquote>

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