{"id":28408,"date":"2014-03-01T00:48:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T05:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28408"},"modified":"2014-03-01T00:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T05:54:23","slug":"we-are-uncomfortable-with-us-resolution-at-un-because-there-should-not-have-been-a-resolution-at-allsays-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28408","title":{"rendered":"“We are Uncomfortable with US Resolution at UN Because There Should not have been a Resolution at all”says Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meera Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Expressing Sri Lanka\u2019s discomfort with the United States-sponsored resolution to come up in Geneva in a month, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday said: \u201cWe are uncomfortable with the whole resolution\u2026there should not be a resolution at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was addressing members of the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Association, a couple of days after Sri Lanka responded to U.N. Human Rights chief Navi Pillay\u2019s report \u2014 calling for an international probe \u2014 emphatically rejecting it.<\/p>\n

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Covering a range of issues pertaining to Sri Lanka\u2019s preparation for the Human Rights Council session, which begins March 3, he seemed to indicate that the Government of Sri Lanka would not feel bogged down, even as an apparently strong resolution makes its way to Geneva. \u201cThere is no evidence [of rights abuse or war crimes] at the moment\u2026 if there is any, we will look into it,\u201d he said, addressing as many as 17 journalists in his office at Temple Trees, Colombo.<\/p>\n

On how he thinks India would vote in Geneva \u2014 on March 28 \u2014 President Rajapaksa said: \u201cYou must remember they [India] are facing elections and have to listen to the electorate, think about the future. Last time they voted against us, this time we don\u2019t know yet. But we understand them.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Rajapaksa is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Myanmar next week on the sidelines of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation.<\/p>\n

Responding to a question on the prevalent perception that Sri Lanka was playing the \u201cChina card\u201d, Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris, who was also present, said: \u201cThere is no exclusivity to these relationships. They are all our friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa\u2019s election manifesto that speaks of a referendum among northern Sri Lankan Tamils and the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora on a separate state, the President said: \u201cThey [diaspora] have left Sri Lanka, they won\u2019t come back. They are British and Canadian citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Ms. Jayalalithaa repeatedly spoke about northern Tamils, she must realise that it was her fishermen who were taking away their [northern fishermen\u2019s] resources, he said, while responding to a question on the fisheries conflict between India and Sri Lanka.
\nCOURTESY:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Meera Srinivasan Expressing Sri Lanka\u2019s discomfort with the United States-sponsored resolution to come up in Geneva in a month, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday said: \u201cWe are uncomfortable with the whole resolution\u2026there should not be a resolution at all.\u201d He was addressing members of the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Association, a couple of days …<\/p>\n

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