No decision on Lanka before consulting DMK: Khurshid
18 March 2013 8:00 AM IST
Union External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Sunday the decision on the vote in United Nations Human Rights Council on the resolution against Sri Lanka will be taken after consulting DMK and other allies.
‘The UPA government will take a decision on the vote against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC later this month after a meeting with its allies, particularly the DMK,’ Khurshid said in Lucknow amidst demands by the DMK that India should vote against Sri Lanka on the human rights issue.
The DMK, a key ally of the UPA with 18 Lok Sabha members, has insisted that India should push for amendments to the resolution against Sri Lanka to incorporate its demand for an international probe and time-bound action against those found guilty of war crimes in Sri Lanka. The resolution will come up for voting at the UNHRC in Geneva on 21 March.
While the government maintains that it has stressed for action on issues like early progress towards reconciliation, apart from credible probe into alleged rights violations, according to sources, DMK is not happy with the outcome of the recent meeting between Khurshid and Sri Lankan officials which it sees as an effort to strike a deal between Sri Lanka and the US, so that India can be saved from voting.
The US-sponsored motion puts Sri Lanka on the mat over alleged war crimes and human rights violations against Tamil civilians during the last phase of the war against the LTTE.
‘The UPA government will take a decision on the vote against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC later this month after a meeting with its allies, particularly the DMK,’ Khurshid said in Lucknow amidst demands by the DMK that India should vote against Sri Lanka on the human rights issue.
The DMK, a key ally of the UPA with 18 Lok Sabha members, has insisted that India should push for amendments to the resolution against Sri Lanka to incorporate its demand for an international probe and time-bound action against those found guilty of war crimes in Sri Lanka. The resolution will come up for voting at the UNHRC in Geneva on 21 March.
While the government maintains that it has stressed for action on issues like early progress towards reconciliation, apart from credible probe into alleged rights violations, according to sources, DMK is not happy with the outcome of the recent meeting between Khurshid and Sri Lankan officials which it sees as an effort to strike a deal between Sri Lanka and the US, so that India can be saved from voting.
The US-sponsored motion puts Sri Lanka on the mat over alleged war crimes and human rights violations against Tamil civilians during the last phase of the war against the LTTE.
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