Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry Secretary Ravinatha Ariyasinha has protested to the United Nations in New York last week over the reported sudden decision to reduce Sri Lanka Army troop participation in United Nations peace-keeping forces and also over the failure of the world body to formally inform the Government of Sri Lanka regarding this sudden change in policy, the Foreign Ministry disclosed yesterday. The UN’s reduction of Sri Lankan troop participation apparently follows the UN’s decision to consider the newly appointed Army Commander, Lt. General Shavendra Silva as having been implicated in human rights violations during the Sri Lankan internal war which ended in 2009.