The SLFP's vice president, Nimal Siripala de Silva thanked President Maithripala Sirisena for his "achievements" at the UN and said Sri Lanka's delegation had been successful in watering down the resolution to some extent, the Daily Mirror reported.
However the minister said the implementation of recommendations given by the OHCHR Investigation in Sri Lanka (OISL) would create legal issues and be problematic to implement.
“The UNHRC report says that Sri Lanka needs to adopt feasibility legislation, specific legislation to facilitate a hybrid court mandated to probe war crimes committed by security forces personnel. We will need to change our Constitution in order to make room for a hybrid court, and we can’t make these happen overnight,” he said to press on Thursday.
Mr Siripala said passing new laws and changing the constitution were not simple procedures and many problems will arise if those processes were started.
“According to our law, if a new law was passed, we can’t apply that law to deal with what was done in the past. Therefore, if we are to introduce new laws and then to probe war crimes which were committed in the past, we will have to have a referendum to get the people's approval,” he said.