{"id":116222,"date":"2013-12-04T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=116222"},"modified":"2013-12-12T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T09:47:36","slug":"international-community-patience-on-sri-lanka-could-wear-thin-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/international-community-patience-on-sri-lanka-could-wear-thin-us\/","title":{"rendered":"International Community Patience On Sri Lanka Could Wear Thin: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has warned Sri Lanka that the patience of the international community could wear thin if the Rajapaksa Government does not take steps to address the issue of human rights, accountability and reconciliation process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States and all of our friends across the international community have underscored the need for Sri Lanka to make progress on issues of reconciliation, on issues of accountability and on issues of human rights &#8212; ongoing concerns about the political space and human rights in the country,\u201d Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told reporters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116223\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116223\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116223\" alt=\"Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal-800x448.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to working with our friends in Sri Lanka to see that progress,\u201d Ms. Biswal said in response to a question, adding that the US would like to see Sri Lanka address these issues through its own processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that that can in fact be the case. I think that the patience of the international community if real progress is not seen, particularly on issues of accountability, that patience will start to wear thin. And so we urge our friends in Sri Lanka to use the opportunity to show some concrete steps that their own, you know, processes have yielded,\u201d Ms. Biswal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the LLRC (Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission), there are a set of recommendations. I think that those are exactly the points that we\u2019d like to see progress on, and we\u2019ve encouraged them to do that,\u201d the top US official said.<\/p>\n<p>*Courtesy PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":116223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Community Patience On Sri Lanka Could Wear Thin: US - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/international-community-patience-on-sri-lanka-could-wear-thin-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Community Patience On Sri Lanka Could Wear Thin: US - 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