OHCHR likely to play major role in war crimes probe
By Our Political Editor
US, India reach consensus on resolution against Sri Lanka, full implementation of 13th Amendment and more resources for NPC Document was only an initial draft; final official resolution still not handed over, vote on March 27
Sunday, March 09, 2014
It went viral after a UN-based web outlet last Monday reported on the initial draft of a resolution the United States will move on Sri Lanka at the on-going Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva. Local and foreign media reproduced the Four-page Full text, posted As a Cross reference to a report in the Inner City Press in New York. Some mistook the draft and claimed to be the Final One IT has already been handed over to the Council Secretariat . It is not so. Still in its infancy, the draft resolution was co-sponsored this week by the United Kingdom, Montenegro, Macedonia and Mauritius. More countries are to be added as co-sponsors. They would be both members and non-members of the UNHRC. The resolution itself is to undergo further minor structural changes as the US consults stakeholders who are supporting it, important among them, India. It is only thereafter that the formal resolution will be handed over to the Human Rights Council Secretariat. It will come up for debate on March 26.
