Northern Governor wants to know who drafted 2015 UNHRC resolution

Northern Province Governor Suren Raghavan, who was part of the government delegation to Geneva, has invoked the Right to Information Act to find out as to who was responsible for the UN Resolution 30/1 which was passed in 2015 soon after the new government took office and was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka with other western countries led by the United States.

This was after he failed to get a proper response from the Foreign Ministry as to who was responsible for drafting the original text of the resolution.

Governor Raghavan told the media in Jaffna last week that he was still awaiting a response to the RTI application filed to the Ministry though he wanted to have the information before he left.

The contents of this year’s resolution were based on the original text of UN Resolution 30/ 1 and the government secured two more years for implementation of the steps agreed upon.