COLOMBO, Oct 16 (AFP): Sri Lanka Saturday rejected demands for international monitoring of human rights by a top UN envoy who warned of a "disturbing" lack of investigation into reports of killings and abductions.
Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe told the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, that Sri Lanka would not agree to her call for UN monitoring of human rights in the country.
"We are not willing to discuss a UN presence in Sri Lanka for monitoring purposes nor are we willing to allow an office of the High Commissioner (here)," Samarasinghe told reporters at the end of Arbour's four-day visit.
Sri Lanka rejects UN monitoring call
FE Team | Published: October 17, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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