http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/04/05/pol02.asp


LLRC report LLRC report:

Only feasible proposals will be considered - DEW
Chamikara WEERASINGHE
The US - sponsored resolution on the implementation of the recommendations
stipulated in Sri Lanka’s own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission
(LLRC) report is non-binding because bringing out the report was the state’s
responsibility, Human Resources Senior Minister D E W Gunasekera told the Daily
News, adding that only Sri Lanka can resolve its ethnic question.
"The US cannot resolve Sri Lanka's ethnic question," the minister
said. "The government will implement what it considers necessary and feasible in
the LLRC report as a sovereign nation with zero tolerance against external
interferences in its internal affairs."
Asked if the US sponsored resolution had a negative impact on the
implementation process of the the LLRC, Gunasekera asked: "How can one
experience any negative impact when so much work has been done in terms of
implementing the recommendations?"
Explaining the government's work towards national reconciliation, Gunasekera
said: "The government has already resettled all those who have been displaced by
the war. We have taken steps to rehabilitate thousands of LTTE cadres who were
taken as prisoners by the Security Forces. We sent them home after
rehabilitation to live normal lives."
"The LLRC report has recommendations that are acceptable and that can be
implemented. Most have been implemented. There are other recommendations that
are under consideration by the government. There are recommendations that cannot
be implemented. The report is not without deficiencies. The report is our own
concern and we will decide what is best as a sovereign nation," he said. Asked
about the stance taken by the Indian government to vote against Sri Lanka at
Geneva Human Rights Council, Gunasekera said although India voted against Sri
Lanka under pressure by the situation of their domestic politics in Tamil Nadu,
they must be respected for the amendment they have moved in to the resolution
that any assistance from the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights or
visits of UN special procedures should be in consultation with the concurrence
of the Sri Lankan government.
"The government will decide how it should go about implementing the LLRC
report ," he added.