It gives me great pleasure to see an eminent son of Guyana guiding this forty-eighth session of the General Assembly. Sri Lanka and Guyana have a long tradition of cooperation at the United Nations, in the Non-Aligned Movement and in the Commonwealth.
Sri Lanka also expresses its appreciation to Hi…
The Sri Lanka delegation wishes to congratulate the Secretary-General for presenting what he himself has referred to as
It is indeed a comprehensive overview of the manifold activities of the different organs and other bodies of the United Nations system.
In his introduction, the Secretary-General…
As the Minister in charge of social
welfare in Sri Lanka, it is my particular privilege to participate in this
special plenary meeting of the General Assembly marking the conclusion of the
United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons. May I take this opportunity to
thank the Government of Canada fo…
The delegation of Sri Lanka congratulates
Mr. Stoyan Ganev of Bulgaria on his election as President of the forty-seventh
session of the General Assembly. We assure him of our full co-operation and
support.
We wish to record our deep appreciation of the determined manner in which
his predecessor…
Sri Lanka voted in favour of ail the draft resolutions contained in the report of the United Nations Council for Na- mibia. We did so out of full sympathy with the objec- tives and the general thrust of those draft resolutions.
247. ~Iowever, in keeping with the· f~reign policy of Sri Lanka, my del…
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the two coordinators who have guided us in the shaping the draft resolutions before us. We also wish to thank the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for the support it has provided in that task.
The United Nations Convention on the Law …
Sri Lanka is pleased to be a sponsor of draft resolution A/61/L.30 under agenda item 71 (a), “Oceans and the law of the sea”, as it is with similar texts every year.
Over the years, the annual resolution on oceans and the law of the sea has become a complex, technical and, in some ways, an interpre…
On behalf of my Miilister for Foreign AtTairs and on my own behalf I should like to extend to you, Sir, my warm con- gratulations on your unanimous election to the high otTlCe of President of this session of the General Assembly. Your election is a recognition of your talent and experience in the co…
Sri Lanka has voted in favour of all the draft resolutions and was, in fact, a sponsor of four of them.
72. Sri Lanka's support for the elimination of apartheid in South Africa is too well known to require repetition here. However, my delegation would have preferred there to have been no specific c…
When Mr. Kittani as- sumed the presidency of this session on 15 September, he so rightly advised us to devote the session to implementa- tion and follow-up rather than repetitious statements and the inevitable resolutions that follow. Today, three months later, when we are on the eve of concluding t…
I should like to thank Mr. Massamba Sane of Senegal and, through him, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People for the invaluable work they have done in the past year and for having presented the Com- mittee's report to the Assembly. I should also like to tak…
As we did last year, almost to the day, my delegation has preferred to refrain from participating in the main debate on the draft resolu- tion on this item. I wish to emphasize that this was not determined by any lack of resolve or by apathy on our part or by a reluctance to speak in support of the …
My delegation was among the signatories that requested the inclusion of this item in the agenda of the thirty-sixth session. The request for the inclusion of this item became necessary after reso- lution 487 (1981) was unanimously adopted by the Se- curity Council on 19 June. That resolution strongl…
Speaking late in this debate. my delegation is alive to the fact that this item. as shown by the debates that have taken place so far and the exchanges during the current debate, is a question of great controversy. As the Secretary-General himself says in his report. in spite of the efforts made at …
On behalf of the Gov- ernment and people of Sri Lanka;' I extend to you, Mr. President, our congratulations on your election to the
merous occasions to observe and take pleasure in your dedication to our founding principles and your skill. We are confident that those attributes will benefit the Ass…
Our thanks are due to the Special Committee against Apartheid and to its Chair- man, Mr. Maitama-Sule. the representative of Nigeria. for his lucid introduction of the report on the Committee's activities and the review of developments in South Africa.
158. Few items on the agenda of the General As…
LC1~t week my delegation cast its vote in favour of the acceptance of the credentials of the delegation of Democratic Kampuchea. In casting that vote we made our posi- tion sufficiently clear, but we refrained from inter- vening in the debate because many of the reasons we would have urged in suppor…
Let me thank the Special' Committee against Apartheid and its Chair- man, Mr. Cla..k of Nigeria, for the exhaustive docu- mentation they have provided the General Assembly for its consideration of this item. 198. Sri Lanka speaks late in this debate and there are a number of other speakers yet to be…
' It is my privilege to address this premier international body and to convey to its members the fraternal greetingsof the peopleofSri Lanka. I do so as the first Prime Ministerof the Democratic Socialist Republicof Sri Lanka under the New RepublicanConstitu- tion of 1978.
3. As representatives wil…
As this Assembly is aware, since the tragic events of 1974 affecting the Republic of Cyprus, a group of non-aligned countries at the United Nations have, in a Contact Group, made every effort to negotiate with all the parties concerned and to present a draft resolution for the consideration of the A…
