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The UNA-Sri Lanka, as a grassroots membership organisation, has a large network of volunteer-run branches which give individuals across Sri Lanka a chance to partake in UN activities. These range from speaker to fundraising events, these activities raise awareness and interest in the work of the United Nations at a local level across the country.
Retrieved 28 January 2024. ^ "Sri Lankan High Commissioner-designate Vadivel Krishnamoorthy presents credentials to Kenyan President – Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Sri Lanka". Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Sri Lanka. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
The largest was the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , which included 20,688 uniformed personnel. The smallest, United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan , included 42 uniformed personnel responsible for monitoring the ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir.
Diplomat, UN Civil Servant. Aruni Yasodha Wijewardane is a Sri Lankan diplomat and the current Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka. [1] Previously she served in several senior positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, as well as overseas. From 2005 to 2008 she served as Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Austria and Permanent Representative ...
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest ...
Known for. Human Rights Activism. Jayathma Wickramanayake (born 22 November 1990) is a Sri Lankan born international civil servant who currently serves as the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth. [1] Appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in June 2017, she succeeds Ahmad Alhendawi of Jordan, who served ...
Sri Lanka Army Peacekeeper with the US Marine Corps. Ceylon's first invovlment in United Nations peacekeeping took place in 1957 in the wake of the Suez Crisis as the United Nations General Assembly moved to form an Advisory Committee to plan the deployment of what was going to be the United Nations Emergency Force. Ceylon was a member of the ...
Diplomatic missions in Colombo. Embassies / High Commission. Other missions or delegations. Consular missions. Hambantota. Jaffna. Kandy. Non-resident embassies and high commissions accredited to Sri Lanka. Closed missions.