Let me congratulate you, Sir, on your election as President of this important session of the General Assembly, and extend to you the warm best wishes of the Government of Sri Lanka for a successful stewardship of this meeting.
At the outset I wish to state that Sri Lanka and the Government of Her E…
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…
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…
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed in 1982, is indeed one of the greatest achievements of this Organization and may be considered to have brought about revolutionary changes in this branch of the law during the past three decades. It represents perhaps a momentous developmen…
While heeding calls for brevity I cannot neglect to express my delegation’s thanks to His Excellency Mr. Amara Essy of Côte d’Ivoire for his guidance of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matter…
On behalf of the delegation of Sri Lanka, I would like to express our appreciation for the thoroughness with which the Secretary-General has prepared his report on the work of the Organization. I am pleased to express our sense of satisfaction with the account of the work of the United Nations as de…
