Rajiva Wijesinha

“ We are grateful too to Australia, which has never hesitated to call a spade a spade, and is one of the few countries that, not obsessed by Victorian coyness and old world loves that dare not speak their name, directly names the LTTE when terrorist bombings occur. ”

“ The statement of Japan, that has never swerved from its encouragement to pursue swiftly a just political solution, is particularly welcome, since it notes our adherence to a policy of zero civilian casualties. ”

“ Of course the perversions of the LTTE are no excuse for violations of Human Rights, but the corrosive nature of terrorism is too well known to many of you for us to pretend that it will not have its effect, as indeed the High Commissioner herself has indicated in an earlier statement. ”

“ We will do our best to fulfil their expectations with regard to concern for civilians, our civilians Mr President, whom the government cares for not only for the moral and political reasons we recognise in this Council, but also for the very practical one that they are voters in the democratic process the government intends to restore after many long years of totalitarian terrorist dominance. ”