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By IANS - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
09th February 2013 03:27 PM
Sri Lanka Saturday said it hoped India will vote for it in the upcoming UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.
India had voted for a US-sponsored resolution last year that pulled up Colombo on issues related to human rights and the re-settlement of Tamils displaced by the military conflict.
Sri Lankan Minister for Public Administration W.D.J. Seneviratne told reporters here that there had been "a remarkable improvement in the human rights situation" in his country.
"We expect India will consider (the issue) differently," he said.
"Today citizens in (the northern and eastern) provinces can freely approach the civil administration to sort out their issues," he said, referring to the former war zone.
The minister said bonds between India and Sri Lanka were growing from strength to strength.
"India is one of the major exporters to Sri Lanka and in the last year trade between the two countries crossed $5 million. Besides, India is helping to build a power plant in our country," he said.
He said Sri Lanka and Kerala had a lot of similarities in culture and food.
The minister spoke hours after Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa ended a two-day pilgrimage tour of India.
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Comments(2)
India should NOT vote in favour of sri Lanka as the country is showing scant respect to the tamil community. they have taken no action so far to rehabilitate them after the great massacre of innocent Tamils in the north of the country. this problem needs to be attended first before India looks after the interest of siri Lankans.
Posted by BASHESHAR at 02/09/2013 16:53 Reply to this Report abuse
He must have been a clever student in his school days! One student , as per a famous parable- prepared to answer essay-question, expecting question to write essay cow. Unfortunately the question given was, 'Write an essay on coconut tree'! Undaunted, he started writing, 'There was one coconut tree near our place. We tie our cow to the tree. The cow is a four-legged animal; it gives us milk; it is a vegetarian; timid animal ..'.etc! or, vomiting all that he prepared to write on 'cow'. The question here is on violation of human-rights and the excesses. Further, those ruling in SL refuse to devolve power to own minority Tamils population. Why should this Minister write an essay now on Indo-Lanka relations? It was not the question. Anyhow, he will not be able to write any such 'essay' at UN deviating from topic of discussion.
Posted by KANNAN at 02/09/2013 22:04 Reply to this Report abuse