Sri Lanka has rejected 98 recommendations submitted by countries at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva, the troika tasked with serving as rapporteurs for Sri Lanka’s UPR said in its draft report.Presenting the report on Sri Lanka, the Ambassador of Spain to the UN in Geneva said that 210 recommendations were made to Sri Lanka.The troika initially said that Sri Lanka had rejected 100 recommendations and accepted 120 but the draft report was later amended and the final figure saw Sri Lanka reject 98 recommendations and accept 111.The Ambassador said that Sri Lanka had explained why the several recommendations were rejected.Meanwhile Cuba, China and Russia raised concerns over what they said were attempts to use the UPR process to create a rift in the council and target a particular country.After the draft report was adopted Sri Lanka’s special envoy for human rights, Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe, said that Sri Lanka will send a set of voluntary pledges to the UN Human Rights Secretariat within two weeks.He also said that the government will keep the Secretariat updated on the progress of the post war developments in Sri Lanka.