Friday, 26th September 2014 The Secretary General of the organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa in New York City yesterday. The meeting took place on the sideli ...
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“Turning Point” Investment Summit inaugurated
Friday, 26th September 2014 “Turning Point”, an Investment Summit organised for the first time by the Federation of Chambers of Commerce with the objective of extending private sector assistance to the program being im ...
SEC allows Lankans abroad to invest in Ceylon Dollar Bond Fund
Friday, 26th September 2014 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given approval to Sri Lankans living overseas to invest in the Ceylon Dollar Bond Fund (CDBF), thereby extending the opportunity to Sri Lankan ...
President Rajapaksa joins Secretary Clinton at Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting
Thursday, 25th September 2014 NEW YORK: President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the 2014 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to extend Sri Lanka’s support ...
Sri Lanka, China pledge to boost military cooperation
Thursday, 25th September 2014 China yesterday said it is ready to boost “pragmatic cooperation” in various fields with the Sri Lankan military. Xu Qiliang, Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission hailed th ...
Sri Lanka will not help legitimize a flawed process that could set dangerous precedent by cooperating with the OHCHR investigation
Responding to the ‘Oral Update’ on Sri Lanka by the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva today (25 September 2014), Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha said “the Government of Sri Lanka does not wish to help legitimize a flawed process and have a detrimental precedents established”, and hence “has to respectfully refuse those who urge that Sri Lanka cooperate with the OHCHR investigation.”
He said this position has been taken after much consideration and represents not only the will of the Sri Lankan people as reflected in the motion recently adopted in the Parliament with an overwhelming majority, but also the majority within the Human Rights Council, who refused to support Operational Paragraph 10 of HRC resolution 25/1 which created an OHCHR investigation on Sri Lanka in March 2014.
‘SL to become first tropical country to eradicate Malaria’
Tuesday, 23rd September 2014 Director General Health Services, Dr. Palitha Mahipala said this declaration was possible as not even a single case of Malaria was reported. In another achievement of Sri Lanka’s free ...
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