Reconciliation a priority for Sri Lanka: Sirisena

“Everything now depends on implementation – the text was worded in a very ambiguous way”, said Alan Keenan, Sri Lanka analyst at the worldwide Crisis Group.

This is the first time for Sri Lanka to hold a summit withthetheme of maritime, aimed at achieving interaction between Sri Lanka’s government leaders, industry experts and executives, jointly exploring the development direction of the South Asian regional shipping and logistics industry under the current background of sustained growth of the South Asian regional economy and increased enlarging of retail markets of production.

“The full implementation of these commitments is now needed, starting with prompt action on a fully participatory national consultation, especially with victims, for the design of a comprehensive justice process and the immediate adoption of essential confidence building measures”, the European Union said.

“These require urgent investigation”, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a speech.

Wickremesinghe said his government could only act within the framework of the Sri Lankan Constitution, which does not allow foreign judges to operate in the country.

Sirisena won backing on Monday from US Secretary of State John Kerry, who endorsed a “credible domestic process” with worldwide support when the two met on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Sri Lankan president believed that a proper study is required to ascertain how climate change aggravates Sri Lanka’s contemporary development challenges such as poverty alleviation, food security, increased aging population and natural disasters.

TamilNet, Sunday, 27 September 2015, 19:36 GMT] Genocidal Sri Lanka’s leading politicians and diplomats, past and present, have used sovereignty as a defense against global “intervention” in conducting investigations of worldwide crimes: war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Sources from Geneva report that the certain amendment may be made in to the US Draft Resolution on Sri Lanka which was tabled on Thursday.

The Sri Lankan navy and the coast guard of the island nation have detained seven fishermen from Threspuram in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu on charges of fishing in their waters.

Referring to the “trust us” plea by the Sri Lankan foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera, the HRW says “Sri Lanka is asking the world to accept its promise to being accountability as it sees fit”. “Frustration in youth usually leads to conflict”, he said.

He said, “As far as India is concerned, we naturally support the quest for justice”. It has also chose to release land to resettle about 1,022 Tamil families displaced by the war in northern Sri Lanka.