Keheliya's comment on UNHRHC's visit

Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said the visiting UN Human Rights High Commissioner's (UNHRHC) statement on Sri Lanka becoming an authoritarian state leads to a reasonable doubt that there is a different agenda behind her visit, since all tools of a democratic government are currently in place.

There is a stable government at present with a fine legal system in place backed by a proper law enforcing mechanism. Elections are held in keeping with the Constitution and there had not been serious allegations made against them. And after thirty years, elections are now being held in the North, which is a healthy sign of a democratic country.

Therefore we have a reasonable doubt that Navanetham Pillay had a different agenda since in none of the factors, democracy had been violated in Sri Lanka. He further said that the principles of the Constitution have been adhered to and the rights of people ensured.