Written question asked by Keith Vaz (Labour) on Tuesday, 30 October 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 1 November 2018. It was answered by Mark Field (Conservative) on Tuesday, 6 November 2018 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Sri Lanka: Tamils

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Sri Lankan counterpart on the status of Tamil people.

Answer: The UK remains firmly committed to the full implementation of UN Human Rights Council Resolution 34/1, under which Sri Lanka committed to implement a range of measures to provide for human rights, truth-seeking and reconciliation following the end of its civil war. I encouraged Foreign Minister Marapana, officials and others to continue to make progress on these commitments when I visited Colombo in the first week of October 2018. Our High Commission in Sri Lanka regularly travel to the North and East and meet with local groups, and where we have specific human rights concerns we raise these with the Sri Lankan government.

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