A Sri Lankan official said Wednesday that the country had not been subject to criticism by the international community on its human rights record.

Keheliya Rambukwella, the government's defense spokesman and the Minister for Foreign Employment, told reporters that there had been a misreporting of facts about the proceedings of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meeting held on Tuesday in Geneva.

"There were 39 countries taking part in the meeting at foreign ministerial level and only three nations, Sweden, Switzerland and France, had made any mention of the Human Rights situation," Rambukwella said.

He said the British government had commended the Sri Lankan government's action to constitute an international panel of eminent persons to help probe 15 cases of rights violations.

Human Rights watch groups have accused the Sri Lankan government of constant human rights violations in the form of abductions and disappearances of persons in the escalation of armed conflict. The government has denied these accusations.

The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch has urged the UNHRC to send monitors to the island country.

"We will not allow any action which impinge on the sovereignty of the country. They could only come here by the invitation of the government," Rambukwella stressed.

The escalating conflict between government troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has killed over 4000 people and displaced more than 100,000 in the north and east since December 2005.

Source: Xinhua