I have the honour, on behalf of Sri Lanka, to convey appreciation and gratitude to the delegation of Germany for all that Ambassador Kastrup and his colleagues at the Permanent Mission of Germany have done to ensure that the General Assembly urgently considers today the subject of the preservation o…
Sri Lanka has continuously and consistently extended its firm and unqualified support to the Palestinian people’s struggle, under the leadership of President Arafat, to realize their inalienable rights, including the right to statehood. The tragic and shocking events that have occurred in the occupi…
I consider it a great honour to address the General Assembly on behalf of Sri Lanka under your presidency, Sir, on this important subject.
As I am sure it is in other parts of the world, so also in Sri Lanka our culture has taught us to hold the family unit in sacred esteem, to regard the child as …
I convey to the President the warmest felicitations of Sri Lanka on his election to the high office of President of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly, and I pledge to him Sri Lanka’s fullest cooperation and support in his work.
To the Foreign Minister of Namibia, Mr. Theo- Ben Gurirab…
Yesterday, on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the President of Sri Lanka, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, conveyed, on behalf of the Government and people of Sri Lanka, warm felicitations and best wishes to President Arafat and the people of the S…
Allow me first to extend to our President's distinguished predecessor, His Excellency Didier Opertti, Foreign Minister of Uruguay, President of the fifty-third session of the General Assembly, our gratitude for the excellent manner in which he conducted the work of the previous session.
Allow me al…
I am honoured to be able to speak in the General Assembly today on behalf of Sri Lanka.
The relationship between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations is close. The Charter of the United Nations, adopted in 1945, sought to make relations between States far better than the…
The subject of Palestine has been on the agenda of the United Nations in one form or another for the past 50 years. For the realization by the Palestinian people of their inalienable national rights, I have the honour today to reaffirm Sri Lanka's wholehearted support.
Those in a position to do so …
My delegation would like to withdraw the candidature of Mr. Asoka de Zoysa Gunawardena, the Sri Lanka nominee for election to the Rwanda Tribunal. In doing so, we are most grateful to all the countries that have voted for us in the various rounds. But for the sake of reaching an early decision, we w…
The Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC) is an
It is only natural, therefore, that there should be a cooperative relationship between the AALCC and the United Nations — a relationship whose personifications for those of us who work in the corridors, the lounges and the conference room…
In light of the results of the voting, I am withdrawing the name of the candidate of Sri Lanka, Mr. Wadugodapitiya.
There remains one seat to be filled. The Assembly will now proceed to another ballot to fill the remaining vacancy. In accordance with the decision taken earlier, that ballot shall be…
My delegation is honoured to participate in the General Assembly debate on agenda item 59, “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters”. We are especially privileged to do so during the presidency of Ambassador Udovenko and to a…
May I at the outset convey the Sri Lankan delegation's thanks to Ambassador Ibra Ka of Senegal, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, for his introductory statement on the report of the Committee (A/52/571). We wish to express our appreciation…
The delegation of Sri Lanka wishes to express its grave concern at the decision of the Government of Israel to commence the construction of nearly 6,500 housing units in the Jabal Abu Ghneim area of East Jerusalem. This is a step taken in furtherance and as part of its illegal policy of expanding se…
May I at the outset convey to Ambassador Ibra Ka of Senegal, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the thanks of the delegation of Sri Lanka for his statement introducing the Committee’s report. We wish to record our appreciation for the Commi…
Sri Lanka is privileged to have been associated with the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC) since its inception. The AALCC has played an invaluable and historic role since the 1950s in creating a wider appreciation of international legal issues among the newly independent States of A…
We thank the Secretary- General for his detailed report dealing with various facets of the Organization’s work, which lays particular emphasis on reform, the establishment of peace, conflict- prevention and some aspects of development. Following the wide-ranging discussions and in-depth analysis car…
For Sri Lanka it is a matter of particular pride and pleasure that we have a distinguished representative of an Asian country, Malaysia, presiding over the fifty-first session of the General Assembly. Sri Lanka and Malaysia have long enjoyed the warmest ties of friendship. We congratulate the Presid…
As we come to the end of the second half of this century, which has seen so much conflict and human suffering, we are witnessing epoch-making events in world history, in the sphere of both international politics and international security.
Not long after the invention of the nuclear bomb, and given…
