Foreign Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris told Navi Pillay that Sri Lanka "resents vicious and baseless positions which are incessantly repeated" against the island, which is emerging from decades of ethnic war.
"There is a perception in the country about the lack of objectivity and fairness in the treatment meted out to Sri Lanka," the external affairs ministry quoted Peiris as telling Pillay during talks in Colombo.
"The minister added that Sri Lanka accepts constructive and justified criticism but resents vicious and baseless positions which are incessantly repeated.
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Pillay began a week-long visit to Sri Lanka on Sunday after Colombo appeared to drop its public hostility towards her and the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which has adopted two US-led resolutions against the island in as many years.
The UN rights chief had publicly called for a war crimes investigation into what the UN calls "credible allegations" that up to 40,000 civilians were killed during the final stages of the