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Speaking at a press conference in Jaffna on Friday, the leader of the Tamil National People's Front (TNPF), Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam expressed "grave disappointment" on the UNHRC resolution 22/1, and asserted that the call for a "local investigatory process has to be outright rejected".
Commenting on the resolution, he went on to say that the TNPF wished to "unreservedly distance" itself from it, citing three reasons: the call to use local mechanisms in order to carry out investigations, the resolution's emphasis on the LLRC, and the inclusion of the government's pledge to hold Northern provincial council elections.
See here for audio clip on TamilNet. Transcribed verbatim below:
"Our party wishes to express our grave disappointment with regards to the resolution that has been passed. And we wish to unreservedly distance ourselves from that.. that resolution. And we say so for three reasons.
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