Sri Lanka has expressed concern over the “unprofessional manner” in which the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is investigating the island nation’s rights record.
Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris on Monday met the U.N.’s resident coordinator Subinay Nandy to convey the Sri Lankan government’s “extreme discontent”, a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs said.
Charging that the OHCHR reset the deadline for collection of evidence, the Minister said it was particularly disturbing that the development took place while a campaign to collect fabricated evidence was under way in Sri Lanka with the collusion of both local and foreign parties.
The evidence was being concocted fraudulently, with signatures “procured under false pretences and with financial inducements”, the Minister alleged.
