INDIA’S STAND ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UNHRC) 46/L1, 2021 RESOLUTION “PROMOTING RECONCILIATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SRI LANKA”

 

The 23 March 2021 resolution “Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka” in the 47 member UNHRC was adopted after 22 States voted for the resolution, 11 states voted against, and 14 States abstained from voting.

European Union countries were prominent supporters of the resolution, while Russia, China, Bangladesh and Pakistan were the key dissenters. India, Japan and Nepal were the leading countries who abstained from voting on the resolution.

Despite abstaining from the vote, India’s nuanced statement during the discussion on the resolution showcases her expectation for Sri Lanka to meet its commitment to the 13th Amendment of Sri Lanka’s constitution devolving powers to the Provincial Assemblies, while voicing India’s  support for stability and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka.

India’s stand pursues its perceived national interests of countering the China-Pakistan influence in Sri Lanka, underscores its continuing pursuit of Sri Lankan Tamils aspirations within the broad framework of Sri Lankan constitution, and keeps the door open for strategic investments by Indian corporate houses within Sri Lanka. But what’s left unsaid is equally relevant and that is India’s opposition to Western countries interference in internal matters of sovereign countries through selective espousing of Human Rights issues.


Veteran Col RS Sidhu, independent strategic analyst, and author of the successful book “SUCCESS FROM BEING MAD”.

Excerpt from his upcoming book “ELEPHANT ON THE HIGH HIMALAYAS”, on India China discourse and how its impacting the geostrategic arena, which is due for being published shortly, “The twenty first century is witnessing a monumental ‘Clash of Civilisations’ on the high Himalayas, between India and China, representing two of the oldest continuous civilisations the world has known. The outcome of this clash shall not only determine the future of a third civilisation, which is Tibetan, but shall also set the geostrategic discourse for the world at large, truly making it the ‘Asian Century’. A resurgent Bharat is looked at as a key threat by China to realise its ambition of establishing a new Sino-centric world order. A threat which needs to be nipped in the bud, before it becomes too powerful to counteract.” 

 


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