Britain has listed Sri Lanka as a “country of concern” in its latest annual human rights report, released days after it co-sponsored a US-backed resolution against the country at the UNHRC.

The British foreign office's 2013 annual report has noted that the human rights situation in Sri Lanka was of serious concern.

Britain was one of the co-sponsors of the US-backed resolution passed last month at the UN Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka's human rights accountability and reconciliation with the minority Tamils.

The report lists Sri Lanka as a “country of concern”. “Although progress continued on post-conflict issues such as re-building of infrastructure and elections took place for the first time in the north of the country, the overall trend was negative in many respects,” the report said. (PTI)