Sri Lanka, May 23 -- Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris registered the Government of Sri Lanka's emphatic protest and deep concern over the adoption of a motion in the Canadian Parliament on May 18 on the alleged genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

In a meeting with the Acting High Commissioner of Canada in Sri Lanka Amanda Strohan at the Foreign Ministry on Friday (20), the Foreign Minister categorically rejected the blatantly false content of the motion and highlighted that its erroneous substance is fundamentally inconsistent with and contradicts the position of the Government of Canada that "it has not made a finding that there was genocide in Sri Lanka".

Minister Peiris also pointed to the need for such technical terms with specific l...