The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay addressed press in Sri Lanka today, as she began her week long visit to Sri Lanka.
At a press conference held on Sunday, she said:
At a press conference held on Sunday, she said:
"I am here to assess the human rights situation and I am speaking to both the government and the civil society. And I'm traveling around the country as much as I can, and when I go back, I will be reporting on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka."As Pillay arrived, President Mahinda Rajapaksa left for a 3 day visit to Belarus.
"I have not come here to criticise. I have come to raise human rights concerns, and I frame myself within the human rights standards set for the whole world, by all the governments of the world, including the government of Sri Lanka."
"So I'm not writing my own statute. I'm looking at the framework - it's whether they comply with those standards."