India’s National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon will visit Sri Lanka later this month, in order to follow up a UN Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka which was passed in March.
Officials told the Hindu that the visit was,
“a follow-up to the United Nations Human Rights Council vote against the island nation in its last session.”
At the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in March, India voted in favour of a US-sponsored resolution calling on Sri Lanka to implement recommendations for the government’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.
The vote was hailed by India's National Security Council Secretariat, Lt. Gen. (Retd) Prakash Menon as a “calculated decision” and in line with India’s “national interest”.
See our earlier post: Vote for UNHRC resolution was in India's national interest – Menon (28 March 2012)
Menon, a former High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, last visited the country in June 2011 where he reportedly discussed the issue of devolution of powers to provinces with President Rajapaksa.
The trip comes as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to meet Sri Lankan President briefly at the sidelines of the Rio+20 conference in Brazil.
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