Resolving problems without outside help more important
by P. Krishnaswamy
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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