Mexico heads Security Council; says open to briefing on Lanka

(April 04, New York, Sri Lanka Guardian) The United Nations Security Council’s new president from Mexico has said he is open to additional briefings on the situation in Sri Lanka, according to an Inner City Press news report.

Soon after taking over as president of the council for April, Mexican Ambassador Claude Heller told journalists that he was open to additional briefings on the "important" situation in Sri Lanka.

When Inner City Press asked why Sri Lanka did not formally appear on the Council's program for April, despite a humanitarian crisis in the north of the country, Heller said: "You know very well in the Security Council there are different criteria on Sri Lanka. Some countries say it is "not part of the agenda... others, we have maintained, it is important."

He called the Council's two briefings to date of "great value," and said "I don't exclude us doing more on the same track."

-Sri Lanka Guardian