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Resolving problems without outside help more important

The US-sponsored resolution adopted at the UNHRC Geneva sessions is not a matter for concern but what is important is resolving our own problems without any extraneous interference, Senior Minister D.E.W. Gunasekera told the Sunday Observer.

The voting pattern at the UNHRC clearly shows that many countries in the developing world are disinclined to vote in favour of such country-specific resolutions, he said.

The US got the resolution adopted because during the last lap of the humanitarian operation, President Mahinda Rajapaksa did not give in to external pressures to abandon the onslaught against the LTTE terrorists.

These external forces had offered to mediate and later threatened to send the UN forces, but the President did not pay heed to it.

They got the resolution adopted primarily because they wanted to protect their geopolitical and global strategic interests.

The EU countries, including Norway, supported it because they wanted to protect their Anglo-Saxon hegemony in the world. These issues could be dealt with diplomatically in the future because the power balance is now shifting towards Asia, Minister Gunasekera said. There had been pressure on the Indian centre from its Tamil Nadu allies and the State government itself. The minority Congress Government in the centre would have collapsed had it not supported the resolution, he said.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US was the only power that played the role of the world policeman. They destabilised many governments for the sake of their global strategic and geopolitical interests. Having realised that the balance of forces is shifting towards the Asian Continent after nearly 500 years they had taken recourse to this kind of measures in an effort to destabilise countries in the Asian region, he said. The resolution is part of such efforts, he said.

 

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