Sri Lanka has received the highest public acclamation with 12 countries voting against the UN Human Rights Resolution on Sri Lanka and 12 more nations abstaining as against the 23 countries that voted in favour of the Resolution.
The Resolution of Navaneethen Pillay was submitted to the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva yesterday and debated. Analysts emphasize that although the Resolution was adopted yesterday with a majority of votes, the Human Rights Council had earned ignominy through this vote. 23 countries voted in favour of the UN Resolution against Sri Lanka in Geneva. However, 12 countries had opposed the Resolution directly supporting Sri Lanka. Also 12 other countries abstained from casting the vote, rejecting the Resolution against Sri Lanka. Accordingly Sri Lanka received the support of 24 countries in this process.
A notable feature was also that some countries refraining from voting in favour of the Resolution without cowing down to dire pressure exerted by Western nations including the United States.
The total population of the countries which voted against Sri Lanka was in the region of 3944.8 billion.
Accordingly, the analysts elaborated that the majority of the total world population that supported Sri Lanka than the countries that went against the Resolution is 2818.5 billion.
These statistics explicitly display that Sri Lanka had received the consent of a majority of the population of member countries.
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