The United States said Friday that it will sponsor and support a new resolution against Sri Lanka at the current session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva to put pressure on Sri Lanka to show progress in reconciliation and accountability issues.
"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," US State Department Acting Deputy Spokesperson Patrick Ventrell said Friday. The spokesperson said the new resolution will build on the 2012 resolution, which called on Sri Lanka to do more to promote reconciliation and accountability. "So that's really the content of the resolution and we're cosponsoring - we're sponsoring it and support it," he said. The U.S. introduced the resolution 19/2 titled "Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka" at the 19th session of the UNHRC in March 2012. The resolution was adopted by the 47-member UNHRC with a majority of 9 votes. The Resolution 19/2 called on the Sri Lankan government to implement the constructive recommendations made in the report of the LLRC, to present a comprehensive action plan to implement the LLRC recommendations, and to address alleged violations of international law. The US, not pleased with the pace of the Sri Lankan government's progress in implementing the reconciliation measures and investigating the alleged humanitarian law violations, has decided to introduce a procedural resolution at the current UNHRC session.
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