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Sri Lanka says it will withdraw from UN rights resolution

by Associated Press
| February 19, 2020 4:05 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's prime minister said Wednesday that the government has decided to withdraw from co-sponsorship of a 2015 U.N. Human Rights Council resolution calling for the investigation of allegations of war crimes committed during the island nation's long civil war.

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