UK policy on Sri Lanka timid and inconsistent, say MPs

Committee says government should have taken stand on human rights before Sri Lanka hosts Commonwealth summit.

A parliamentary committee has accused the government of timid and inconsistent policy towards Sri Lanka, where it says there are “continuing human rights abuses”.

The Commons foreign affairs committee says the government should have made Sri Lanka’s bid to host the biannual summit of the Commonwealth – to be held in Colombo next month – conditional on improvements in human rights.

“The UK could and should have taken a more principled … and robust stand in the light of the continuing serious human rights abuses in Sri Lanka,” the MPs say in a report.

Continue read: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/17/uk-policy-sri-lanka-timid-inconsistent

Source: The Guardian (UK)