Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday welcomed India's vote in favour of the US resolution against Sri Lanka in the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) but hit out against the "confusion and procrastination that preceded that decision".
She also thanked the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for India voting in favour of the resolution.
In a statement issued here Jayalalithaa said, "The Government of India had been very indecisive on this very sensitive issue which is an inherent emotive issue for Tamils all over the world."
Jayalalithaa charged that the Indian government did not act on the resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu assembly last June urging the Indian government to work with the members of UN in bringing to book the persons who had perpetrated war crimes against the Tamils in Sri Lanka and also impose an economic embargo on the island nation.
"..thanks to the Resolution brought by the United States of America in the 19th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Government of India was forced to take a stand on this issue," she said.
Referring to her two letters to Manmohan Singh on the issue, she said that the Indian government "had been ambivalent" and Sri Lanka almost succeeded in persuading India to defeat this Resolution".
"Amidst all this confusion and procrastination, it is heartening to note that the Government of India has finally voted in favour of the Resolution moved by the US," Jayalalithaa said.
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