{"id":2116,"date":"2017-12-01T14:07:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2017-12-01T14:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:07:31","slug":"uk-tells-sri-lanka-to-fully-implement-unhrc-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/uk-tells-sri-lanka-to-fully-implement-unhrc-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"UK tells Sri Lanka to fully implement UNHRC resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The British Government has told Sri Lanka to fully implement the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution which was passed in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">British Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field said that he had raised the issue during his visit to Sri Lanka in October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cDuring my visit in early October 2017 to Colombo and Jaffna, I raised with Foreign Minister Marapana the importance of the Sri Lankan Government implementing in full its commitments under UN Human Rights Council Resolution 34\/1, which rolled over the commitments made under 30\/1. These commitments include the return of all military-held private land, the operationalisation of the Office of Missing Persons, and the development of new counter-terrorism legislation in line with international human rights standards,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The British Minister of State said that the UK is committed to the full implementation of Resolution 34\/1 and will continue to support the Government of Sri Lanka in its efforts to promote reconciliation and human rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Government has told Sri Lanka to fully implement the UN Human Rights&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}