We are trying for forward looking outcome in UN Resln. On Lanka:PM

CHENNAI: The Indian government was trying to achieve a forward-looking outcome on issues related to accountability and reconciliation rather than deepening confrontation and mistrust between the concerned parties on the UN Resolution against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes. This was disclosed by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in his reply to DMK President M Karunanidhi’s March nine letter to him urging India to immediately announce that it would support the US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka in the UN Human Rights Council at Geneva. In his letter to the DMK Chief, whose party is a key ally of the Congress-led UPA at the Centre, the Prime Minister said ‘with regard to the resolution in the UN Human Rights Council, we are engaged with all parties in an effort to achieve an outcome that is forward-looking and that ensures a way forward is found on issues related to accountability and reconciliation rather than deepening confrontation and mistrust between the concerned parties’. ‘India’s objective, as always, remains the achievement of a future for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka that is marked by equality, dignity, justice and self-respect’, the Prime Minister told Mr Karunanidhi in the letter, copies of which were released to the media by the DMK, here today.