According to Mano Tittawela, Secretary General of the government-appointed Secretariat for Coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms, Sri Lanka has sought a two-year time frame to implement the 2015 resolution. Earlier this week, Foreign Minister assured the Council in Geneva that Sri Lanka would go the distance, and urged the people and civil society to be patient. “If Sri Lanka is to be counted among countries that carry out their undertakings, then surely it must do what it undertook to do,” he said. It is in that context, Mr. Sumanthiran explained, that Sri Lanka must be given a time extension. Sri Lanka assured the international community of a “four-pillar approach” to address truth, reconciliation, accountability and non-recurrence.

Source: The Hindu March 02, 2017 20:03 UTC