{"id":5714,"date":"2019-03-14T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2019-03-14T12:50:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:50:37","slug":"sl-does-not-agree-on-unhrc-report-marapana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sl-does-not-agree-on-unhrc-report-marapana\/","title":{"rendered":"SL does not agree on UNHRC report: Marapana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka will not agree to what is written in the UNHRC report and will express its opinion, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tilak Marapana told parliament today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Responding to a question raised by Leader of Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Minister said the government will respond to UNHRC on the allegations made against Sri Lanka. Citing an example he said the government will dismiss the claim made in the UNHRC report that the military had failed to hand over the lands held by them to the civilians in the North. \u201cWe will inform UNHRC that the military had handed over 90 per cent of the lands held by them to the owners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said one should not get mixed up with the UNHRC report on Sri Lanka and the resolution that is being co-sponsored by Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe resolution refers to only what the government had done with regard to post-war reconciliation and resettlement and a request for more time to complete rest of the work,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said Sri Lanka had managed to restore its international reputation through the joint resolution that will be presented to UNHRC. The government has been able to show the international community that Sri Lanka can handle its affairs on its own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka will not agree to what is written in the UNHRC report and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","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=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}