Sunday, 28th September 2014 LENS When you ask people in Estonia about Sri Lanka, what would be the first thing they say? Ceylon tea, nice sunshine and sandy beaches, cinnamon, most probably. When you ask people in Sr ...
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Do NGOs really help the country in peace-building and reconciliation?
Sunday, 28th September 2014 LENS By J. Yogaraj Are conspirators working under HR issue cover? A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for-prof ...
President holds bilateral discussions at UN Headquarters
Thursday, 25th September 2014 President Mahinda Rajapaksa held several bilateral discussions on Tuesday afternoon at the United Nations Headquarters on the sidelines of the U.N. Climate Summit 2014. The President met w ...
President extends support to elephant conservation at Clinton Global Initiative meeting
Thursday, 25th September 2014 New York: President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday joined former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the 2014 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York. Pr ...
Like Minded Group Joint Statement says ” the intrusive mandate given to the OHCHR by Res. 25/1 to carry out investigations on Sri Lanka is unwarranted”
Twenty-two developing countries of the Like Minded Group (LMG) in Geneva, in a joint statement made through its Chair - Egypt, have said the Group "believes that the intrusive mandate given to the OHCHR by Res. 25/1 to c ...
President Rajapaksa calls for the de-politicisation of the UN system
Charging that human rights are being used as a tool to implement motivated agendas with no understanding or appreciation of the complexity of issues in the countries concerned, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has made an appeal for the de-politicisation of the UN system.
President Rajapaksa made this call when he addressed the 69th United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday 24th September 2014. This is the seventh occasion that the President has addressed the General Assembly.
Dangers posed by climate change must be addressed collectively – President Rajapaksa
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has called on the international community to address the dangers posed by climate change collectively. Addressing over 100 other world leaders on Tuesday, 23rd September 2014, while participating in the United Nations Summit on Climate Change, in New York, the President highlighted that principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities should guide the search for common solutions to issues related to climate change. Sri Lanka ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1993 and acceded to the Kyoto Protocol in 2002.
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