Malta's Green party urged the government to reconsider offer to host the CHOGM 2015 stating that it ‘could be interpreted as condoning human rights abuse in Sri Lanka’. (See here for report in Malta Today.
The chairman of Alternattiva Demokratika, Arnold Cassola, said:
The chairman of Alternattiva Demokratika, Arnold Cassola, said:
"Can Prime Minister Muscat please inform the Maltese citizens about the Maltese government's attitude to these serious accusations of human rights violations on the part of the Sri Lankan government?"Malta agreed to host the next summit after the premier of Mauritius, which was due to be the next host, boycotted over human rights concerns in Sri Lanka.
"AD considers it appropriate to have the invitation reconsidered and withdrawn in solidarity with Sri Lanka's human rights victims,"