{"id":72066,"date":"2021-03-02T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T02:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=72066"},"modified":"2021-03-02T21:27:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T02:27:25","slug":"despite-indias-non-committal-on-the-issue-sri-lanka-is-confident-india-will-stand-on-the-right-side-and-vote-against-resolution-on-sri-lanka-at-the-unhrc-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=72066","title":{"rendered":"Despite India&#8217;s non -Committal on the Issue, Sri Lanka is &#8216;Confident India will stand on the right side&#8217; and vote against Resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Government yesterday expressed confidence that India would stand with Sri Lanka on the \u201cright side\u201d at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions and support it to defeat the resolution that is set to be moved next week. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told the weekly Cabinet briefing that the Sri Lankan Government was confident of India\u2019s support even though the country\u2019s closest neighbour has remained noncommittal. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are confident India will stand on the right side of this issue,\u201d Rambukwella said. \u201cWe completely reject the UNHRC report on Sri Lanka and see it as an effort to interfere in Sri Lanka\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p> There is no effort to hold one of the worst terrorist organisations in the world to account, but the Sri Lankan Government is being unfairly treated. We are confident that Sri Lanka\u2019s allies will standby us and help defeat this resolution.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Last month the Foreign Ministry sent an official letter appealing for India\u2019s support at the UNHRC sessions. This week India, while participating at an interactive dialog on the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHR), had backed the implementation of the 13th Amendment in full.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of India\u2019s support at UNHRC has also gotten caught up in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s efforts to ensure a win for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Tamil Nadu elections, which will be held on 6 April.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT <\/em>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton72066\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D72066&amp;text=Despite%20India%26%238217%3Bs%20non%20-Committal%20on%20the%20Issue%2C%20Sri%20Lanka%20is%20%26%238216%3BConfident%20India%20will%20stand%20on%20the%20right...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government yesterday expressed confidence that India would stand with Sri Lanka on the \u201cright side\u201d at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions and support it to defeat the resolution that is set to be moved next week. Cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told the weekly Cabinet briefing that the Sri Lankan Government was &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=72066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Despite India&#8217;s non -Committal on the Issue, Sri Lanka is &#8216;Confident India will stand on the right side&#8217; and vote against Resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in Geneva&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72067,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72066\/revisions\/72067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}