Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be meeting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Myanmar next week, confirmed India’s Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh.
The meeting, on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit, comes as the UN Human Rights Council will meet in Geneva, where a resolution on Sri Lanka will be brought forward.
Pressure has been mounting on Sri Lanka, with increasing calls for an international independent investigation, into the events of the armed conflict which ended in 2009. Earlier this month the Telegraph reported that India would support the move for an international investigation, which has recently been backed by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
However the Foreign Secretary refused to comment on whether India would support a resolution on Sri Lanka, stating
"We have to see the text of the resolution, we have to take several other factors into account and then will finally vote."
Both major political parties in Tamil Nadu, the AIADMK and DMK have called for a UN led international investigation.
See our earlier posts:
DMK calls for India to table resolution at UN HRC (21 February 2014)
AIADMK manifesto calls for Eelam referendum (25 February 2014)