PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Sri Lanka: Human Rights (13 March 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Sri Lanka on that government's failure to implement the UK-sponsored resolution 30/1 of the UN Human Rights Council.

Asked by:
Wes Streeting (Labour)

The UK is committed to the full implementation of UN Human Rights Council Resolution 34/1, under which Sri Lanka committed to implement a range of measures to provide for human rights, truth-seeking, reconciliation, and devolution of political powers following the end of its civil war. I encouraged Foreign Minister Marapana to continue to make progress on these commitments when I met him in Colombo in October 2017. Most recently I wrote to him on 7 March setting out UK views ahead of the 37^th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Answered by:
Mark Field (Conservative)
16 March 2018