An order, designating persons and entities in terms of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 which sets out strategies to combat terrorism and to control terrorist financing has been signed by Prof. G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, and will be published in the Government Gazette shortly.
By Anne Bayefsky President Obama’s hemorrhaging foreign policy is creating an increasingly embarrassing mess at the United Nations. A four-week session of the U.N.’s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council, ended in Geneva on March 28, 2014, with a series of humiliating defeats for the president’s calling card of indiscriminate engagement.
The Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) Tempest Express – 24 Staff Planning Workshop in Colombo will take place from April 1, 2014 to April 9, 2014 at Galadari Hotel.
Iran has slammed the adoption of the recent UN human rights resolution against the country as an “unconstructive, politically motivated and double-standard” move that “undermines international human rights mechanisms.”
Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA — Reuters “Mind your own business,” North Korea’s ambassador told the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, moments before it voted to demand justice for Nazi-style atrocities in his country.
Editorial Though obviously not unexpected, the results of the Southern and Western Provincial Council elections are a considered slap on the face of the Camerons and the Michelle Sissons and spokespersons for the State Department, who say that the recent UN Human Rights Council Resolution against Sri Lanka was meant for the people of this Read More
The Sri Lanka Navy assisted in the repatriation of 19 Indian fishermen and 04 fishing trawlers on 30th March 2014.
Sri Lanka’s efforts at achieving national reconciliation and significant progress in many spheres received support from countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America during the adoption of the resolution on 27 March 2014 and consideration of the High Commissioner’s Report on Sri Lanka on 26 March 2014 at the Human Rights Council.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa told journalists that no presidential election would be held till 2016 at a meeting at D. A.Rajapaksa Maha Vidyalaya, Medamulana on March 29.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva has blasted the recent human rights resolution against the country as sign of a “dangerous and concerning” course of action.
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