<span style="color: #222222;">Sri Lankan Government today formally announced its decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution co-sponsored in 2015.<br />''<br />'' Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawardena told reporters that the proposal to withdraw from the resolution was tabled by Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena who also sought the support of the international community for the move. He said that the resolution 30/1 and the follow up resolution 40/1 were harmful to Sri Lanka.<br />''<br />''The announcement came after the Cabinet unanimously decided to withdraw from the resolution in its meeting last evening. The government has said that the resolution had been co-sponsored without the consent of then President Maithripala Sirisena. <br />''<br />''The government under President Gotabaya Rajpaksa, however, expressed its commitment to achieve sustainable peace through an inclusive, domestically designed reconciliation and accountability process, including through the appropriate adaptation of existing mechanisms. The resolution was co-sponsored by Sri Lankan Government in a bid to address war crimes accusations and initiate reconciliation mechanism, after defeat of Mahinda Rajapksa in 2015 elections. </span><br />