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India's amendments not included due to lack of
consensus: Khurshid
Thursday March 21, 2013 11:39:08 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
India's amendments to make the US-sponsored resolution against Sri
Lanka tougher at the UNHRC could not be incorporated due to lack
of consensus, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said
Thursday.
He said India's amendments "could have been put in the resolution
provided there was a consensus".
"They wanted the largest number of members to support the
resolution. We didn't want to break the consensus..." he told
reporters.
According to Khurshid, the amendments could be tried in separate
attempts later.
"..it could be tried after sometime in terms of separate
attempts," he said, adding India was "more interested in passage
of the resolution".
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Thursday adopted a
US-sponsored resolution on alleged human rights violation in Sri
Lanka with 25 countries, including India, voting in favour and 13,
including Pakistan, voting against it.
The US-sponsored resolution asked Sri Lanka to conduct an
"independent and credible" probe into allegations of human rights
violations.
"India wanted accountability for no other reason but in order to
allow sustainable peace to prevail in Sri Lanka and that the Tamil
population of Sri Lanka must get their due," he said.
Khurshid said "what we have said is that it has to be an
independent and credible that is also be acceptable to the
international community".
He said India's ties with Sri Lanka will not be influenced by the
vote.
"India is active bilaterally with Sri Lanka."
"We continue to engage them bilaterally and we hope that our
engagement is going to be beneficial for them and will address the
aspirations of the people in India, including the Tamils in
India," he said
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