Sri Lanka envoy says UN resolution is “uncalled for”

Prasad Kariyawasam, the Sri Lanka envoy to India has said that the resolution against his country in the UN Human Rights Council is “uncalled for”.

Speaking to a TV channel on Monday, Prasad said, “First of all, resolution in UNHRC against Sri Lanka is uncalled for. That is our position, and we don’t think there is need for the international community to get involved in Sri Lanka at this point, because we are doing what we have to do step by step.”

“Any content of the resolution for us is really not helpful and it only creates ill feelings among communities both in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka and it unfortunately has created a sense of tension for nothing,” he added.

On recent protest in Tamil Nadu against Sri Lanka, Prasad compared the the same with act of terrorism.

“The agitation has taken, sometimes, the form of terrorism, and some innocent Sri Lanka monks and pilgrims, some Tamils and Christians have been attacked. These are the kind of violent methods practiced by the LTTE sympathisers in the past in Sri Lanka,” he said

He has also criticised the protestors by saying, “(They are) uninformed, those who are agitating against Sri Lanka in Tamil Nadu have not visited Sri Lanka recently. They have never gone there, they are going by mere hearsay, and on the basis of lobbying by groups sympathetic to the LTTE abroad, who are living outside the country”.

“We feel very unsettled by this sort of happenings in Tamil Nadu and I think violence should not to be a means to settle any matter. We abhor that,” Kariyawasam said.

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