SRI LANKA AMBASSADOR APPRECIATES THE U.S. SENATE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SUSTAINED PEACE, DEMOCRACY AND RECONCILIATION IN SRI LANKA

Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya has thanked the U.S. Senators who introduced Senate Resolution 364 recognizing Sri Lanka’s success in restoration of democracy , rebuilding and reconciliation after the dawn of peace since 2009. In a letter addressed to the Senators, the Ambassador called the resolution a very a positive gesture of goodwill and understanding towards Sri Read More

Ambassador Aryasinha says draft resolution of core group violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, has said “the draft resolution on Sri Lanka deposited with the Human Rights Council by a core group comprising – the USA, UK, Mauritius, Montenegro and Macedonia, violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka, is highly intrusive in nature and is in breach Read More

Event to mark the International Women’s Day

An event to mark the International Women’s Day was held at the Committee Room no. 01 of Parliament today. It was organized by the Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan parliament to probe organizations that confer honorary titles

The parliament of Sri Lanka has decided to call for a probe on organizations that confer honorary titles on people. The decision was made following a statement made by United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva that an organization has requested for money from him to confer an honorary title on him.

Minister Peiris tells HC Pillay that the disproportionate negative attention is making the difficult task of reconciliation in Sri Lanka even harder

External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris has said, the highly prejudiced actions taken by a few countries and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to give disproportionate negative attention to Sri Lanka, has made the separatist Tamil elements in Sri Lanka and abroad more intransigent, making the intensely difficult task Read More

Minister Peiris rejects High Commissioner’s Report says those “those who exalt its virtues only seek to inflict harm on the reconciliation process”

Minister of External Affairs and Leader of the Sri Lanka delegation Prof. G.L. Peiris, delivering the National Statement at the High Level Segment of the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today (5 March 2014), rejected the Report of the High Commissioner in its entirety, saying it was fundamentally flawed and Read More

External Affairs Minister Peiris to address HRC High Level Segment on Wednesday

Minister of External Affairs, Prof. G.L. Peiris who leads the Sri Lanka delegation to the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) arrives in Geneva on Tuesday (4 Match 2014), and is scheduled to deliver the Sri Lanka National Statement at the High Level Segment of the HRC on the morning of Wednesday.

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Sri Lanka: True Picture of National Harmony, Reconciliation and Human Rights

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C4 witnesses paid members of LTTE – Lord Naseby

Conservative peer Lord Naseby has suggested the UK government is not abiding by David Cameron’s promised timetable for co-operating with the UN to set up an independent inquiry into claims the Sri Lankan government carried out war crimes.

Sri Lanka rejects High Commissioner Pillay’s call “to establish an international inquiry mechanism”

The Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) has rejected the call by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navnanethem Pillay’s “to establish an international inquiry mechanism to further investigate the alleged violations of IHRL and IHL and monitor any domestic accountability process in Sri Lanka”, saying “it gives scant or no regard to the domestic processes Read More