My delegation would like to thank and extend our gratitude to the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Ambassador Paul Badji of Senegal, and the members of the Committee for their report (A/63/35) and for their efforts toward promoting and ac…
Let me thank you, Mr. President, for convening this debate. Sri Lanka is particularly pleased to take the floor on this important issue under the guidance of the delegation of Viet Nam.
This meeting provides an opportunity to refocus our efforts in addressing the scourge of the recruitment and use …
Let me join others in expressing my appreciation to the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting.
We now stand just past the halfway mark we set for ourselves at the dawn of the new millennium to achieve goals that would provide sustainable prosperity to all who inhabit our plan…
The High-level Dialogue on Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation for Peace is taking place at an opportune moment. The decision by the General Assembly to convene this event is a manifestation of the interest of the international community and the United Nations in promoting…
Let me first of all join others in expressing our outrage at the terrorist bombings in Algeria. Sri Lanka unequivocally condemns this barbaric act, and we offer our condolences to the victims.
At the historic special session of the General Assembly in 2002, our leaders adopted an outcome document, …
I stand before the Assembly today on behalf of the Group of Asian States at the United Nations to pay tribute to a great statesman from Asia who has just passed away after serving his people with distinction for long years.
His Highness Malietoa Tanumafili II, head of State of the Independent State…
We welcome today’s plenary meeting today to discuss the implementation of resolution 60/180 operationalizing the Peacebuilding Commission. Our deliberations on the challenges and opportunities confronting the Commission will no doubt help to clarify the issues facing the Commission in the fulfilment…
I would like to thank the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Ambassador Paul Badji of Senegal, for presenting the Committee’s report. We appreciate the Committee’s efforts to promote the full realization of the inalienable rights of the Pal…
At the outset, let me convey my appreciation to you for the opportunity given to address this meeting of the Security Council which commemorates the first anniversary of the adoption of Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) on children and armed conflict. The Government and people of Sri Lanka, ha…
First of all, permit me to congratulate you, Ambassador Diarra, on your chairing of this very important debate.
My delegation is pleased that the General Assembly is meeting in plenary to discuss the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and …
Sri Lanka associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Jamaica on behalf of the Group of 77 on all sub-items under agenda item 73.
It is an unfortunate reality that within just one year two natural disasters of unprecedented magnitude struck the region of South Asia. One hit f…
The World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond, adopted by the General Assembly in 1995 in resolution 50/81, gives us guidance for the formulation of our vision and policies for youth. It contains significant benchmarks and targets to be realized to make youth a central focus of…
My delegation wishes to convey its appreciation to you, Mr. President, and to the General Assembly for the condolences on the untimely and tragic demise of the Honourable Lakshman Kadirgamar, the late Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka.
We join other delegations of the Assembly in paying tri…
It is with deep sorrow that my country learned of the passing away of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who eloquently expressed loving kindness, compassion and sympathy to the world as a messenger of peace. We recall with reverence the visit of the late Holy Father to Sri Lanka in 1995. I wish to joi…
On behalf of the Group of Asian States, I have the honour to express warm wishes and congratulations to His Excellency Mr. Srgjan Kerim of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on his election as President of the General Assembly for its sixty-second session. Ambassador Kerim is no stranger to t…
