Britain says must push hard to pass resolution against SL

Britain says it faces an uphill struggle to secure the passage of an appropriately robust resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in March against Sri Lanka but the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is working hard to mobilize opinion and get the necessary majority.

“We face an uphill struggle to secure the passage of an appropriately robust resolution at the UN Human Rights Council, but I assure him that the FCO network is already hard at work with the resolution’s main sponsor, the United States, to mobilise opinion and the necessary majority, and that our campaign at the Human Rights Council will be led at ministerial level,” Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Mark Simmonds told UK Parliament during the debate on Sri Lanka on Thursday.

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Source: Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)