The Mauritius Premier, Navin Ramgoolam, has pulled out of hosting the next Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) following his boycott of the current summit in Sri Lanka.
Speaking to Channel 4 News Ramgoolam lamented the lack of progress on addressing accountability, justice and continuing human rights abuses, further stressing that the current form of ‘engagement’ with Sri Lanka was not proving effective.
Ramgoolam outlined that if the Sri Lankan government did not respond to calls for an international independent investigation into war crimes and rights abuses and maximum devolution of power to the Tamil North-East, stronger measures would have to be considered.
Ramgoolam suggested that firm actions such as suspending Sri Lanka from the commonwealth and enforcing sanctions were the next logical step.
See full interview with the Mauritius premier below.
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