Mema Kathawa sinhala pathra wala hariyata Parivarthanaya kara NATHA Nkoana-Mashabane South Africa strongly supported Sri Lanka’s post-war national reconciliation process at the ongoing session of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Addressing the 47-member states of the council as well as other delegates, South African International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Nkoana-Mashabane said: The Human Rights Council has been seized with the issue of Sri Lanka for a while. Let me share with you our approach to the Sri Lanka situation. It is important that we allow Sri Lankans to find each other, and out of this find solutions that are durable for their country. We as, as South Africans also had to find each other and consequently find our own solution to our own problem. This is our wish for the people of Sri Lanka.South Africa recently appointed a special envoy to explore ways and means of assisting Sri Lanka’s reconciliation efforts. The statement was made in the backdrop of some Diaspora groups calling South Africa to quit its initiative in Sri Lanka. Commenting on the situation in Palestine, Minister Nkoana-Mashabane said: It is a shame that the Palestinian people continue to be denied their inalienable right to self-determination and continue to have their rights trampled on by an occupying force that has itself known what it is to be victimized in the same manner that it is victimizing and displacing Palestinian people. It is even more saddening that this Council has thus far failed to hold the occupying force accountable for its action. Instead more is demanded of the Palestinian people and less is done to restore their dignity.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:47:39 +0000
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