Geneva-The new resolution on ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ A/HRC/51/5, which was presented at the 51st regular session of the Human Rights Council has been adopted with 20 voting in favour while 7 voted against the resolution and 20 abstained from voting.
Along with Pakistan, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Eritrea, Bolivia and Uzbekistan voted against the resolution.
Twenty countries- the United Kingdom, United States, Argentina, Armenia, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, and Marshal Islands. Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, the Republic of Korea and Ukraine- voted for the resolution easily outnumbering Sri Lanka.
India, Japan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and Japan are among the countries that abstained.
