ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka did not ask for a vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council because it didn’t want to spend public funds on a vote it would lose anyway, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath told parliament. On previous occasions, Sri Lanka’s governments had spent public funds to travel to member countries and attempt to woo them to vote in favour of Sri Lanka, but this had failed, he said. “Past governments using public funds and time, knowing that they will lose a vote, performed media circuses. That is not our policy,” Herath told parliament making a statement on…
Sri Lanka didn’t waste public funds by asking for a vote at UNHRC: Minister
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