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Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has made a predictable announcement of boycotting one of the largest international leader’s summit in Sri Lanka while he was attending another international leaders’ summit in Indonesia. Mr. Harper was attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on Monday, when he formally stated that he will be boycotting the upcoming Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka that is scheduled to take place next month.
Moreover, Harper threatened of withdrawing Canada’s ties with the 64-year-old Commonwealth organization in case it does not act against the ongoing human rights abuses by the host Sri Lankan government. The prime minister cited numerous reasons including the impeachment of a chief justice to allegations of extra judicial killings, along with disappearances and the jailing of political opponents and journalists.
In a brief availability during the APEC summit, Harper stated that “in the past two years we have not only seen no improvement in these areas, in almost all of these areas we’ve seen a considerable rolling back, a considerable worsening of the situation.” He added that “based on that, I have made a decision I will not attend the Commonwealth leaders’ summit this fall.” Additionally, he elucidated that he made the decision with “somewhat of a heavy heart,” though he had already threatened boycott since the last Commonwealth leaders’ meeting in Australia in 2011, so the announcement was not really a surprise. However, his direct discontentment with entire organization has raised many eyebrows.
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