Lanka must not be given Commonwealth chairmanship: HRW

October 17, 2013 08:49

Sri Lanka must not be awarded the two-year chairmanship of the Commonwealth after it hosts the CHOGM summit in November, a human rights group said today.

Commonwealth foreign ministers will meet on October 17 and 18 in London to finalise the agenda for the summit in Colombo from November 15-17.

Rewarding Sri Lanka with the chairmanship casts serious doubts on the Commonwealth's commitment to supporting human rights and democratic reform enshrined in the Commonwealth Harare Declaration of 1991, Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

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