Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said Sri Lanka is in the process of implementing all demands made by the sponsors of the UNHRC resolution against it except for allowing an international probe into alleged human rights violations during the last phase of the war with the LTTE.        

The assertion was made by the Sri Lankan President during a meeting yesterday with Seiji Kihara, Japan's Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs.         Rajapaka told the Japanese Minister, "Please tell this truth to rest of the world. Except for an international inquiry we are in the process of implementing all other demands made by sponsors of the resolution."        

The President's office quoted Kihara as saying that the UNHRC resolution was unhelpful to Sri Lanka. "We considered whether the Resolution on Sri Lanka moved in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva would help Sri Lanka. We decided it will not. That is why we abstained when the vote was taken," Kihara was quoted as saying.