Vasan Expresses Reservation on India Not Voting at UNHRC
Shipping Minister G K Vasan today joined his cabinet colleague P Chidambaram in expressing reservations over India not voting in favour of a resolution...
Sri Lanka Proscribes 15 Suspected LTTE Front Organizations Abroad as Foreign Terrorist Entities Under UN Resolution 1373
The Sri Lankan Government led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa has in a decisive move with far reaching implications proscribed as foreign terrorist entities several...
Ruling coalition wins local election with reduced majority
The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), coalition led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, retained the country’s Western and Southern provinces after the provincial council elections...
Abstention louder than any vote
Sometimes, the loudest sound can emanate from the sidelines. At the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, India’s abstention vote — in...
India doesn’t leave Tamils in the lurch, it will responds soon for its neutrality: V.Mahalingam
Indian Consul General in Jaffna maintained it could not be construed as India has veered off from the Sri Lankan Tamils as a result...
UN probe can’t bring Sri Lanka communities together
On Thursday, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution calling for a UN-led investigation into alleged war crimes committed in Sri Lanka...
UK welcomes action on Sri Lanka
Senior Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi of The Foreign & Commonwealth Office said in a Press release that: " The UK very much welcomes the...
Lanka Must Build on Indian Goodwill at UN Vote: Rights Envoy
Sri Lanka must build on the goodwill shown by India at the UNHRC where it abstained from voting on a resolution against Colombo, President...
US disappointed with India on vote on US resolution
Marie Harf Deputy Spokesperson speaking at the US state Department Daily press briefing on 28 March 2014 stated that the "It is disappointing to us...
U.S.bullied several countries to vote for the UNHRC proposal against Sri Lanka: G L Peiris
It is significant that India which supported the U.S. proposals against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council on the two previous occasions...
India did not vote against Sri Lanka for Tamils’ good
India Friday justified its abstention from voting on the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC, saying the decision was driven by welfare...
Time has come for accountability’ says US Congressional Caucus co-chair
Co-chair US Congressional Caucus on Ethnic and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka, Congressman Bill Johnson said, this week’s vote at the UN Human Rights Council on Sri...
US Embassy says the resolution was not against Sri Lanka
US Ambassador Michele J. Sison, released a statement on 28 March 2014 stating that the United States led resolution adopted at the United Nations...
Karunanidhi condemns India’s abstention
DMK leader M. Karunanidhi on Friday described India’s decision to abstain from voting on the US-backed resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka for its...
The resolution will constitute a serious breach of international law: Sri Lanka’s UN envoy
The top United Nations rights body has approved an international war crimes inquiry into alleged crimes committed by both sides during Sri Lanka's...