Reiterating the Sri Lankan government’s position on the
establishment of a domestic mechanism to go into alleged war crimes,
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera on Tuesday said the shape of
international assistance in such mechanism would be discussed and
finalised after consultations with all stakeholders.
Emerging
from a meeting with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier at
his office here, Mr. Samaraweera made it clear that his government
“always” welcomed international assistance. There was “no major
difference” between the position of the government and that of the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights. “[There are] one or two areas where
we have to find a point of convergence, especially in the type of
judicial mechanism we envisage.”
Mr. Steinmeier, who
exchanged “views and ideas” with Mr. Samaraweera on the matter,
indicated that depending upon deliberations in the UN Human Rights
Council, the extent of international assistance would be decided.
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