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Thursday, March 28, 2008 - 4.52 GMT |
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Sri Lanka supports more representative HR Office |
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Sri Lanka supports the effort to make the Office
more authentically representative of regions and
peoples, said Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka at the Seventh Session of the
Human Rights Council prior to the adoption of the
Resolution titled “Composition of the staff of the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights.”
Explaining the Sri Lankan position he said:
“President, we need an Office which will be a
lighthouse of human rights, a lighthouse whose beam
plays across the horizon back and forth. We do not
need an Office which is opaque or indecipherable,
standing above us like Kafka's castle.”
“We believe that in so broadbasing the Office, in
making it a more accurate mirror of the planet, it
will be able to discharge its functions far more
effectively and it will find itself a more greatly
empowered and authentically independent institution.
Not independent of some but dependent on others, but
independent of all above the fray and recognized as
such universally”, he added.
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