The European Union stated it would work towards promoting “reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka” in a statement delivered to the 30th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.
The European Union Statement, delivered by Luxembourg, said:
“The EU looks forward to the High Commissioner's report on Sri Lanka presented at this session. The EU will continue to support efforts towards further progress of the human rights situation as well as to promote reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka.”
Earlier, the UN Human Rights Chief Prince Zeid Hussein said the council “has been deeply engaged with the need for accountability, as a necessary step towards reconciliation in that country” and it “owes it to Sri Lankans – and to its own credibility – to ensure an accountability process that produces results, decisively moves beyond the failures of the past, and brings the deep institutional changes needed to guarantee non-recurrence”.
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