Let me convey greetings and best wishes from His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka, for the success of this high-level meeting.
The special session of the General Assembly in 2001 and the high-level meeting in 2006 provided an impetus to strengthen and accelerate HIV and AIDS con…
Sri Lanka’s policy on China has been consistent. Sri Lanka firmly believes that there is only one China — the People’s Republic of China — and does not accept the theory of the existence of two Governments. Sri Lanka accordingly opposes the request for the inclusion of items 41 and 155.
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…
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…
I would like to thank Ambassador Kéba Birane Cissé, Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, for his statement introducing the report of the Committee.
Sri Lanka has consistently viewed the question of Palestine as the core of the Arab-Israeli c…
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…
The Assembly has decided to consider the question of Cyprus at this resumed session after a lapse of three years. In the resolution on the subject-resolution 34/30-adopted on 20 November 1979, the General Assembly recalled the s~quence of events which had led to the situation that obtained in Cyprus…
