British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for South Asia Alistair Burt has confirmed that the British government will support a United States sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva later next month, foreign media reported.
Responding to questions on a solution to the ethnic issue Burt said UK will continue to urge the Sri Lankan Government and the major Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance to make serious progress towards a political settlement in the country.
US has recently announced bringing a procedural resolution against Sri Lanka’s human rights record and non-implementation of its own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission Report.
Both the US and Sri Lanka have claimed that it expects India to vote in their favour on the issue.
