Deputy Solicitor-General Yasantha Kodagoda, while refuting the unfair allegations by human rights advocates during the panel discussion and interactive dialogue on missing persons at the 9th Session of the Human Rights Council on Monday, pointed out Sri Lanka has a well functioning and vibrant Supreme Court which engages judiciously in the promotion and protection of human rights.

While emphatically denying that an ethnic profiling exercise is afoot in Sri Lanka as alleged by advocates of human rights who make unfounded allegations against Sri Lanka, Kodagoda said that these bodies do not use this effective, domestic, legal remedy to obtain appropriate redress to the victims they allege to represent.

"We are indeed conscious that disappearances are a phenomenon that plagues human civilizations. We are committed to upholding the rule of law and working with UN mechanisms to resolve this issue even at a time when the very unitary character and the existence of my country are being threatened by ruthless terrorists," he added.

Clarifying the position of Sri Lanka pertaining to the process of continuing the debate on disappearances in the future sessions at the council Deputy Solicitor General said that it should be aimed at supplementing the mandate of the UN working group on enforced disappearances and the very useful work being done in the field by the ICRC.