US to move resolution on Lanka during UNHRC session
Mar 2, 2013 Washington/Geneva: The US is set to move a new resolution against Sri Lanka at the current session of the UN Human Rights Council for its alleged war crimes, asking the country to promote reconciliation and accountability. “The resolution will ask the Government of Sri Lanka to follow through on its own commitments to its people, including implementing the constructive recommendations from the report by Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission,” State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters on Friday. Reuters The US had introduced a similar resolution last year. “It will build on the 2012 resolution, which called on Sri Lanka to do more to promote reconciliation and accountability,” he said. Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon in Geneva told reporters that he has consistently underlined the critical importance of addressing accountability in Sri Lanka through a genuine and comprehensive national process achie