Sri Lanka requests a vote on the resolution at the UNHRC

Sri Lanka Tuesday said it intends to request for a vote when the United States sponsored draft resolution is taken up at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday, March 21.

Post-war Sri Lanka needs a home-grown solution - Minister Peiris

The post-conflict Sri Lanka will achieve reconciliation only through a home-grown solution, Sri Lanka's External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris has said. Addressing a large and representative audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC on "Sri Lanka: Challenges and Opportunities", the Minister has said that

Sri Lanka tells U.S. Embassy to be more circumspect in future messages to Washington

Sri Lanka today told the United States envoy in the country that conveying stories fabricated to denigrate Sri Lanka to the administration in Washington is totally negative to the objective of diplomacy and asked the United States to be more circumspect in the future.