Petition submitted to UN 47 membership countries to induce Sri lanka for settlement.

TESO movement on the leadership of Karunanidhi had taken a decision to urge the UN Council membership countries, to strongly pressurize Sri Lanka government to take necessary measures to provide equal rights to Eelam Tamils.

The delegates would personally meet and urge External Affairs Minister Sal­man Khurshid and ambassadors of 47 UN member nations,  to prevail over Sri Lanka to implement the resolution of UN Human Rights Com­mission to hasten the rehabilitation of the war-hit Eelam Tamils and find an early political solution there.

The team comprising DK president K. Veeramani, VCK leader Thol Tiru­mavalavan, professor Su­bha Veerpandian and former Union minister Sub­bulakshmi Jagadeesan, and DMK Parliament Committee Leader T.R.Balu  rushed to Delhi yesterday.

Referring to the 14 resolutions adopted at the Teso conference at Chennai on August 12, 2012 and subsequent representations made with the UN deputy general secretary Yan Lia Sen by Stalin earlier, the statement said that Teso led by DMK chief M.  Karunanidhi has decided to approach the UN member nations to urge UN to exert more pressure on Lanka to change the prevailing situation in the Island nation and restore the political, economic and cultural rights of  Eelam Tamils there.

 Towards this the TESO delegates visited Delhi yesterday, and today they would personally meet and hand  over the petition by meeting Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Kurshith and the Delegates of 47 membership countries of UN Council

The delegates will request to persuade the Sri Lanka government to find a political settlement, to expedite rehabilitation of war-hit Eelam Tamils, to maintain peace for the Eelam Tamils,  by proposing at the Geneva UN human rights assembly and to process the resolution implemented.

Monday , 28 January 2013