In a meeting with a senior Sri Lankan Government official, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the need for a political solution that addressed the underlying factors behind the country’s civil war, despite the Sri Lankan official’s attempts to highlight that ‘progress’ had been made by the Sri Lankan government on resettlement issues.
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in March, called on the Government to take “all necessary additional steps to ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans.”
Sri Lanka’s progress in upholding human rights will be scrutinised in the upcoming Universal Periodic review (UPR), which will be conducted by the UNHRC at the beginning of November.
