The Sri Lankan government says it will analyse the latest US State Department country report on human rights.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Harsha de Silva said the government will express its views on the report, which details violations which occurred in 2015.
The State Minister of Finance Lakshman Yapa Abeywardane told journalists in Kandy stated that the report by the US Department of State should be studied extensively and claimed that the situation on human rights in Sri Lanka had changed.
“We have not got the opportunity to thoroughly study the Human Rights Report”, he said, adding that there is belief that a solution can be reached through discussion.
"During the past the Europeans were against us and no matter what has been mentioned in the report, during the recent past, there has not been anything serious on the matter of democracy and human rights in Sri Lanka, so there is no need for fear," he further said.
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