Britain could not boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as the move will not bring positive changes, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.
The Canadian and Indian prime ministers are expected to miss the event over concerns about human rights abuses in the country.
According to the BBC, British Prime Minister David Cameron said there were 'serious questions' about war crimes allegedly committed during Sri Lanka's civil war.
Hague said the UK could raise this matter and other serious issues only if Britain attended the summit.
Hague said that he understood why other leaders had chosen not to attend the summit, but for the UK to join them would 'damage the Commonwealth without changing things positively in Sri Lanka,' the report said.
According to the report, Hague, who will accompany Cameron to Sri Lanka, said they would do all they could to address the issue of human rights when they visited the country.