The Tamil National Alliance this week highlighted the Sri Lanka's lack of progess on key commitments made to the UN Human Rights Council and called on the government to ensure its promises were kept.
Speaking in journalists in Colombo Wednesday, the TNA spokesperson, MA Sumanthiran said his party was willing to give the government more time however only if this included a timetable and a process of monitoring to ensure adherence.
Pointing to the commitments made in the 2015 UNHRC resolution co-sponsored by Sri Lanka, Mr Sumanthiran was quoted by AP as saying, “Sri Lanka has not accomplished even one of those obligations, not even one obligation that they voluntarily undertook."
His comments came as the Sri Lankan foreign minister, Mangala Samaraweera addressed the Council and sought to downplay the lack of progress on accountability issues by highlighting areas of reforms.
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