{"id":131469,"date":"2014-10-08T18:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=131469"},"modified":"2014-10-21T02:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:48:37","slug":"uk-reiterates-its-support-to-sri-lanka-war-crime-investigation-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/uk-reiterates-its-support-to-sri-lanka-war-crime-investigation-office\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Reiterates Its Support To Sri Lanka War Crime Investigation Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a meeting with representatives of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tamil+Diaspora&amp;x=6&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tamil Diaspora<\/span><\/a> Organizations UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister of State, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Hugo+Swire&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hugo Swire<\/span><\/a> has reiterated his support to the investigation launched into war crimes in Sri Lanka by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OISL).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_131471\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Hugo-Swire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131471\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131471\" alt=\"Hugo Swire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Hugo-Swire-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Hugo-Swire-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Hugo-Swire-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Hugo-Swire.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-131471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugo Swire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Swire had met with Tamil diaspora organizations including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Tamils+Against+Genocide&amp;x=4&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tamils Against Genocide<\/span><\/a> (TAG) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Global+Tamil+Forum&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Global Tamil Forum<\/span><\/a> (GTF) yesterday in London.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the meeting, the Human Rights and Communications team of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office tweeted about the meeting through their handle:<\/p>\n<p>@FCOHumanRights :<\/p>\n<p>@HugoSwire met UK #Tamil group reps- discussed #humanrights in #SriLanka. UK strongly supports #OHCHR independent int&#8217;l investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the FCO had been quoted in media as stating that the UK is disappointed at the position adopted by the Government of Sri Lanka with regard to the OISL. The official had gone on to state that UK continues to strongly support the renewed resolution that was mandated at the March session of the UN Human Rights Council and had stated they continue to call upon the Government of Sri Lanka to both co-operate with the investigation and to make progress on the human rights and reconciliation fronts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":131471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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>UK Reiterates Its Support To Sri Lanka War Crime Investigation Office  - 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