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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:46 |
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 Emerging markets such as Sri Lanka has pressed ahead with extensive plans and tax holidays to attract foreign investors Dr. Palitha Kohona , Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations said at a meeting with the Vice President of the AT & T Mr. Eric H. Loeb, a global leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, held at Rockefeller Center , New York. The main purpose of the meeting being to explore the possibility of setting up businesses in Sri Lanka |
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 15:49 |
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Hon.Mahinda Samarasinghe , Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights met with UN- Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon on Monday 12th October 2009 in New York |
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 17:03 |
ICT for Development Conference, United Nations
7th October, 2009
Ambassador Dr. Palitha Kohona,
Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka
The time for dilly-dallying over the question of climate change is over. Scientists from around the world have agreed that climate change is a reality. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change consisting of 4000 experts, demonstrated in 2007 that human-induced factors are relentlessly driving the increase in the global temperature. The 2006 Stern Review concluded that global worming would damage the global GDP by over 20%. Humans have pursued greater material gain and in the process caused serious damage to our natural environment and contributed to global warming. If we allow this trend to continue, we are likely to cause irreversible damage to the global climate and also progressively make life difficult, if not impossible, for coming generations. Our actions are causing our planet to become unliveable. We are evicting ourselves from our only home. We are already experiencing unusual weather patterns, serious and prolonged droughts, unusual rainfall, frequent and severe cyclones and hurricanes, massive flooding, land slides, reduction of the permafrost, glacier retreat and the progressive melting of the polar ice caps. These developments are likely to combine to tilt the delicate balance of the global environment in such a way that human existence itself might be challenged seriously. In my own country we have begun to note changes in weather patterns that have affected agricultural cycles and a greater incidence of insect populations and insect borne deceases.
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 14:43 |
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Statement By Hon. Hussein Bhaila , Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the General Debate of the Economic and Financial Committee ( Second Committee), of the Sixty-Fourth Session of the General Assembly: 5th October 2009
Mr. Chairman,
Ladies and Gentleman,
On behalf of the delegation of Sri Lanka, I warmly congratulate you Mr. Chairman, on your election. I also wish to assure our fullest cooperation to you and to the bureau in taking forward the agenda of this important Committee in the coming weeks.
Allow me to thank the Under-Secretary General, Ambassador Sha Zukang, for his briefing in this Committee.
My delegation associates itself with the statement delivered by the Chair of the Group of 77 and China.
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Monday, 05 October 2009 12:17 |
Message from the Chairman of the SAARC Council of Ministers,
Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka on Observance of the
International Day of Non Violence – 2nd October
As we celebrate the observance on 2nd October, the International Day of Non Violence, I am privileged, as the Chair of the Council of Ministers of SAARC, to reaffirm the importance of this day not only for the people of the SAARC region but for the international community as a whole.
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:41 |
Ambassador Palitha Kohona
Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka
at the Security Council Debate on the Situation
in the Middle East including the Palestinian Question
14th October 2009
Mr. President,
I thank you for giving us the opportunity to once again focus on the situation in the Middle East, particularly, the Palestinian question, a question that has occupied the attention of this Council for a long time. Sri Lanka has consistently supported a peaceful settlement to the Palestinian issue and called for the implementation of UN General Assembly Resolutions regarding the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to statehood and the realization of the two State solution. Our sincere wish is that Israel, Palestine and their other neighbours could coexist in peace and harmony. As a country that suffered much at the hands of unbridled violence unleashed by terrorism, Sri Lanka knows only too well the human and material cost of such violence that can impede political solutions. We have consistently endorsed the two State solution to the problem – a peaceful Middle East is our wish for the people of the region.
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 17:25 |
Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka
On Crime Prevention, Criminal Justice
and International Drug Control
in the Third Committee
8th October, 2009
Mr Chairman,
At the outset, let me congratulate you on your election to the Chair of this Committee.
My delegation notes with appreciation the reports of the Secretary-General which underline the fact that international organized crime in today’s world is interconnected, knows no boundaries and has immense impact on global peace and security, stability of States and their socio economic development. The foundations of some States are challenged by transnational organized crime.
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 18:15 |
by Ambassador Palitha Kohona,
Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations
Mr. Chairman,
Allow me at the outset, to congratulate you on your election to the Chair of this Committee. The Report of the Secretary-General is encouraging as many member States and international organizations have responded positively with regard to measures taken by them to prevent and suppress international terrorism. Needless to say, Mr. Chairman, representing a country that suffered for so long from terrorism, and which has succeeded in defeating the terrorist menace, we are encouraged by these measures. We also note with appreciation the presentation by the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, the Report on the 13th Session of the Committee.
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 08:48 |
by Ambassador Palitha Kohona
Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations
Security Council Debate on Women & Peace & Security
5th October 2009
Mr. President,
Members of the Council,
My Delegation appreciates the convening of this Open Debate which provides an opportunity for us to focus our attention on the protection of the rights of women and girls particularly in situations of armed conflict and their aftermath. I take this opportunity to congratulate you on the assumption of the Presidency. Resolution 1325 (2000) has promoted greater awareness across the United Nations system and the international community about those most vulnerable to sexual and physical harm as well as social, economic and political disempowerment in conflict and post conflict situations. The international community must work together to effectively put an end to these most vicious and inhumane forms of gender based exploitation and we welcome the Secretary General’s recommendations. |
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 13:55 |
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 Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of the 64th Session of the UNGA on 28th September, 2009" |
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