UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon encourages the Sri Lankan Government to engage constructively with the international community and cooperate with the ongoing human rights investigation mandated by the Human Rights Council, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, said.
“The Member States have a duty to cooperate. On Sri Lanka, the Secretary General, as you know, has always encouraged the Government of Sri Lanka to comprehensively address the post-war agenda and the Secretary General has also echoed the calls made by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, for the Government of Sri Lanka to cooperate with the ongoing human rights investigation mandated by the Human Rights Council,” he said.
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha announced that the Sri Lankan government will not cooperate with the human rights investigation approved by the UN Human Rights Council and being staffed by outgoing High Commissioner Navi Pillay.
The 28th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council was held from 02 March to 27 March 2014 in Geneva and the report on Sri Lanka by the investigations team of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) was taken up for discussion at the UN Human Rights Council on 25 March 2014.
