{"id":119100,"date":"2014-01-28T00:21:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=119100"},"modified":"2014-02-03T20:45:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:15:59","slug":"will-work-with-unhrc-and-pillay-towards-international-inquiry-on-sri-lanka-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/will-work-with-unhrc-and-pillay-towards-international-inquiry-on-sri-lanka-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Work With UNHRC And Pillay Towards International Inquiry On Sri Lanka: UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will assess Sri Lanka\u2019s compliance with its international obligations and implementation of recommendations contained in the 2013 resolution co-sponsored by the UK when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=UNHRC&amp;x=8&amp;y=0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UN Human Rights Council<\/span><\/a> meets in March this year, the country\u2019s Foreign and Commonwealth Office said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44512\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/David-Cameron-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44512\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44512\" alt=\"British Prime Minister David Cameron \" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/David-Cameron--300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/David-Cameron--300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/David-Cameron-.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Prime Minister David Cameron<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAt the UN Human Rights Council in March 2014, as assessment will be made of Sri Lankan progress to date. The UK will not hesitate to play an active role if progress in not forthcoming,\u201d the FCO said in a letter addressed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rajasingham+Jayadevan&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rajasingham Jayadevan<\/span><\/a>, a British national and former abductee of the LTTE.<\/p>\n<p>Jayadevan wrote to British Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=David+Cameron&amp;x=9&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">David Cameron<\/span><\/a> following the Premier\u2019s recent visit to Colombo. In response the FCO has asserted its official position on Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Mr Swaire attended CHOGM in Sri Lanka due to the importance the UK attaches to the Commonwealth. In attending CHOGM, we also took advantage of a key opportunity to deliver a clear message to the Sri Lankan government: that we expect them to make progress on human rights, accountability, reconciliation and political settlement,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said it was now important that there is a credible, transparent and independent inquiry into the events at the end of the Sri Lankan military conflict. \u201cWe share concerns of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that there have been no credible efforts to independently investigate the allegations to date. If credible investigations have not begun properly by March 2014, we will use our position on the United Nations Human Rights Council to work with the UN Human Rights Commissioner and call for an independent inquiry,\u201d the letter said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":44512,"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-119100","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>Will Work With UNHRC And Pillay Towards International Inquiry On Sri Lanka: UK - 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\/will-work-with-unhrc-and-pillay-towards-international-inquiry-on-sri-lanka-uk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will Work With UNHRC And Pillay Towards International Inquiry On Sri Lanka: UK - 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