Video: I have not come here to criticize-Pillay

25 August 2013 12:59 pm

The visiting United Nations Human Rights Chief Navaneetham Pillay told the media today that she came to Sri Lanka not to criticise but to assess the human rights situation in the country.

“I have not come here to criticise. I have come to raise human rights concerns. And I place myself within the human rights standards set for the world, set by all the governments of the world including the government of Sri Lanka. So I’m not writing my own statute. I’m looking at the frame work,” she said.

She said she would hold talks with both government and civil societies and was hoping to travel around the country as much as she could.
“When I go back I would be reporting on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka,” she said. (LSP)





Pix and video by Kushan Pathiraja