Sunday, 21 February 2021 - 19:54
Lord Naseby of Britain accuses UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet of trying to make the LTTE heroic in her report on Sri Lanka.
Based on the report, the UN Human Rights Council s hosting body in Sri Lanka, including the United Kingdom, will submit a resolution to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Lord Naseby, who is also chairman of the British Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka, points out that the LTTE s atrocities were forgotten in the Human Rights Commissioner s report.
In a letter to the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, Lord Naseby added that the LTTE, a brutal terrorist organization, had assassinated moderate Tamil leaders, as well as former President R. Premadasa and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
A highly unusual object was spotted travelling through the solar system in 2017. Given a Hawaiian name,ʻOumuamua, it was small and elongated – a few hundred metres by a few tens of meters, travelling at a speed fast enough to escape the Sun s gravity and move into interstellar space.
An unusual photograph continues to make the rounds on the part of social media obsessed with the Syrian conflict. It s a photo of Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the militant group and former al-Qaeda affiliate that controls Idlib, the last Syrian rebel province not in government hands.
Jotun: Strong Results in an Unusual Year
Jotun recorded sales of NOK 21,070 million in 2020, an increase of seven per cent compared to the previous year. Operating profit ended at NOK 3,489 million in a year that was strongly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The pandemic had a negative impact on sales in all segments in 2020 and adjusted for currency effects as a result of a weaker Norwegian krone, underlying sales growth was three per cent. The growth was primarily achieved by good growth in sales of decorative paints.
According to CEO Morten Fon, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Jotun s business in 2020 varied from region to region. We have experienced a decline in sales in South East Asia and low growth in the Middle East but recorded strong sales growth in important markets such as Scandinavia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, he says. Throughout this period, Jotun has focused on business continuity measures and avoided laying off employees, helping the company to op