{"id":60426,"date":"2012-11-15T13:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=60426"},"modified":"2012-11-20T08:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T08:51:55","slug":"decision-to-hold-the-2013-commonwealth-meeting-in-colombo-was-wrong-uk-foreign-affairs-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/decision-to-hold-the-2013-commonwealth-meeting-in-colombo-was-wrong-uk-foreign-affairs-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision To Hold The 2013 Commonwealth Meeting In Colombo Was Wrong- UK Foreign Affairs Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We conclude that continuing evidence of serious human rights abuses in Sri Lanka shows that the Commonwealth&#8217;s decision to hold the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo was wrong. We are impressed by the clear and forthright stance taken by the Canadian Prime Minister, who has said he would attend the Meeting only if human rights were improved. The UK Prime Minister should publicly state his unwillingness to attend the meeting unless he receives convincing and independently-verified evidence of substantial and sustainable improvements in human and political rights in Sri Lanka&#8221; \u00a0says UK\u00a0Parliament\u00a0Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_HeadingOne_ctlHeadingH1_h1Item\">Foreign Affairs Committee today published the report on the role and future of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/foreign-affairs-committee\/news\/commonwealth-substantial\/\">www.parliament.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":60427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[6478,6479],"class_list":["post-60426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","tag-human-rights-abuses-in-sri-lanka-and-uk-parliament","tag-uk-foreign-affairs-committee-on-commonwealth-heads-of-government-meeting-in-colombo-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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