Sri Lanka must build on the goodwill shown by India at the UNHRC where it abstained from voting on a resolution against Colombo, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's human rights envoy Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said today.
Samarasinghe said that India had been with Sri Lanka on two side votes before the main vote.
"India voted with Sri Lanka on the vote on the 'no action motion' while they also voted with us on deleting the operative paragraph 10," Samarasinghe said.
Pakistan moved the no action motion after raising a budget query on the proposed international investigation on Sri Lanka. They also moved the deletion of the para which empowered the UN rights chief to proceed with the international investigation.
"The Indian Ambassador used two very important words - 'intrusive' and 'constructive'. Those two words said all about the resolution. We must build on this goodwill shown by India. We have to act more cordially with them," Samarasinghe said, Economic Times of India reported.
