Part 6-9: Sri Lanka Conquered EU Dictatorship at UNHRC - Cuba - HE MR. JUAN ANTONIO

HE Juan Antonio was a "Master Blaster" and a "Weapon of Mass Destruction". An excellent counter argument brought by Cuba to shut down the "German Megaphone". It was a victorious speech by Ambassador Juan Antonio to thwart EU resolution against Sri Lanka to probe war crimes. Sri Lankans are grateful to Cuba and non-aligned movement.

JUAN ANTONIO FERNANDEZ PALACIOS (Cuba):
0:00 "Thank you very much chairman. Chairman, it is regrettable that we had to get this point. The delegation of Germany has presented a package of nine amendments to L.1/Rev.2 draft. Now according to what I have just heard and looking at the texts in front of me, these nine amendments over all. So it's clearly, the intention is clearly to completely redraft and amend the intent of L.1/Rev.2. So there is no other option left to me but to invoke rule article 117 of the 'Rules of Procedure' and move for a motion to close the discussion on the package of the amendment submitted. The motion that I am submitting is founded on the following three elements: "

1:04 "the first, draft resolution L.1/Rev.2 as presented by Sri Lanka is the outcome of comprehensive cross-regional efforts and it reflects a new vision of how the Human Rights Council ought to operate in order to ensure the cooperation, approach that we all decided to share become fully operational"

1:32 secondly, in its current draft, L.1/Rev.2 takes into consideration the vast majority of proposals made by other delegations during very wide-ranging consultations that were undertaken. So, L1 as originally presented only included 17 paragraphs, where as, if you look at the current version which Sri Lanka has just submitted we have got 29 paragraphs. These are figures which speak volumes about the flexibility and openness of Sri Lanka and co-sponsors to be as accommodating as possible including the proposals by other delegations"

2:22 "third point, the decision to put forward a package of amendments reflect the same arrogance and negligence of those who don't accept that the world is not simply accepting what is happened, the changes have come since the defunct Commission. We have think about the basic principles of the UN charter. Notably principles of non-intervention. For all of the reasons I have listed, Cuba moves that we close the debate on the package of amendments submitted by delegation of Germany and others. If there is an opposition to that proposal, we would urge to all council members (countries), in particular members of non-aligned movement (countries of third world and their allies), to vote in favour of our motion of non-action, we should not consider these amendments which distort nature and dramaticaly alter draft resolution L.1/Rev.2. As I have said before this is a draft which reflects cross-regional support. It includes, it is been contributed to by people from all over the world. It meets the consensus of the country concerned. Thank you sir."

The Council approved by 22 a votes in favour, 17 against and 7 abstentions to a no-action motion requested by Cuba against to oral proposed amendments to the draft resolution made by Germany on behalf of EU allied countries. The results of the vote were as follows:

In favour (22): Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.

Against (17): Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Uruguay.

Abstentions (7): Azerbaijan, Brazil, Gabon, Nigeria, Senegal, Ukraine, and Zambia.

The resolution adopted by 29 votes in favour, 12 against, and 6 abstentions, the Chairman of HR Council commended the measures taken by the Government of Sri Lanka to address the urgent needs of the internally displaced persons and welcomed the continued commitment of Sri Lanka to the promotion and protection of all human rights, and encouraged it to continue to uphold its human rights obligations and the norms of international human rights law. It also welcomed the announcement of the proposal to safely resettle the bulk of the internally displaced persons within six months, and encouraged the Government to proceed in these endeavours with due respect to persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.

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DM.Friday, 05 March 2010

The government today rejected a fresh call by UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay for an investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, saying that Pillay should respect the decision made by the inter-governmental UN Human Rights Council last year. Pillay said yesterday I am convinced that Sri Lanka should undertake a full reckoning of the grave violations committed by all sides during the war, and that the international community can be helpful in this regard"

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Here comes truth behind Unrestricted Access to IDP camps. GOSL has identified 6 foreign nationals, including Australians, among tens of thousands of war displaced civilians held in IDP camps in North East of Sri Lanka on 4th June2009. Three Australians and one each from Britain, the Netherlands and Norway over stayed 6months, , supported LTTE anti-sri lanka propaganda. a reason, why EU wanted unrestricted access to IDP camps to save these spies. GOSL should thoroughly investigate, trace calls.

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[NoEalamInSL]

I love this speech! HE Antonio is a master blaster and a weapon of mass distruction

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what a spech, friend of sri lanka!