‘We strongly support position of High Commissioner’ says UK

26 February 2014

British Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Hugo Swire, has stated that the UK strongly supports the position of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, adding that the international community has a duty to act on Sri Lanka.

Swire went on to add that,

Sri Lanka

Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his policy is on the initiation of an independent, international war crimes inquiry in Sri Lanka. [187499]

Mr Swire: As the Prime Minister said in his statement to Parliament on 18 November 2013, we will continue to press the Sri Lankan Government for credible, 

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