by Zacki Jabbar
The government said yesterday that the basis of the US Resolution, on accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, which was adopted by the UNHRC in Geneva, was wrong and it was prepared to face any threat from the US and its allies.
Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, addressing the Cabinet press briefing in Colombo, said that the Rajapaksa government had a comprehensive plan to deal with the current situation and would not succumb to the pressure being applied by the US and its friends, both in the West and in certain other parts of the world, at the behest of the Tamil Diaspora.
"We are ready to face any threat from the US and its allies who are dancing to the tune of the Tamil Diaspora," he warned while acknowledging that yesterday’s Geneva vote was a sensitive issue.
Subversive elements, who were behind the US and West, have failed to acknowledge that more than half the LLRC recommendations have been implemented, the Minister claimed.
Rambukwella said that even though India voted for the US resolution and called on Sri Lanka to fully implement the LLRC recommendations and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, they did not consider India as an enemy nation.
"We continue to work with New Delhi to sort out various issues that had cropped up in the recent past," he said, while observing that the Rajapaksa government did not deal with provincial administrations.
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