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Permanent Representative Of Sri Lanka To The United Nations
The permanent representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations is Sri Lanka's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Nations, and in charge of the country's mission to the UN. The position of permanent representative is equivalent in rank to an ambassador, and entitles them to use the style His/Her Excellency. The current permanent representative is Jayantha Jayasuriya. List of heads of mission * Sir Senerat Gunewardene, KBE (1956–1958) * Sir Claude Corea, KBE (1958–1961) * Prof Gunapala Mallalasekera (1961–1963) * Sir Senerat Gunewardene, KBE (1963–1965) * Merenna Francis de Silva Jayaratne (1965–1967) * Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe (1967–1978) *Biyagamage Jayasena Fernando (1978–1980) *Ignatius Benedict Fonseka (1980–1984) * Nissanka Wijewardane (1984–1987) *Daya Perera (1988–1991) * Stanley Kalpage (1991–1994) * Herman Leonard de Silva (1995–1998) *John de Saram (1998–2002) *Chithambaranathan Mahendran (2002–2004) *Bernard Goonetilleke ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emblem Of Sri Lanka
The National Emblem of Sri Lanka is used by the State of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan government in connection with the administration and government of the country. The current emblem has been in use since 1972 and created under the ideas and guidance of Nissanka Wijeyeratne. At the time, he was Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Chairman of the National Emblem and Flag Design Committee. The designer of the emblem was Venerable Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera, and the artwork was by S. M. Seneviratne. The emblem features a gold lion Attitude (heraldry)#Passant, passant, holding a sword in its right fore paw (the same lion from the flag of Sri Lanka) in the centre on a maroon background surrounded by golden petals of a Nelumbo nucifera, Blue Lotus the national flower of the country. This is placed on top of a traditional grain vase that sprouts sheaves of rice, rice grains that circle the border reflecting prosperity. The crest (heraldry), crest is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Modern honours, knight if male or a dame (title), dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with the order, but are not members of it. The order was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, who created the order to recognise 'such persons, male or female, as may have rendered or shall hereafter render important services to Our Empire'. Equal recognition was to be given for services rendered in the UK and overseas. Today, the majority of recipients are UK citizens, though a number of Commonwealth realms outside the UK continue to make appointments to the order. Honorary awards may be made to cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Permanent Representatives To The United Nations
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohan Peiris
Peter Mohan Maithree Peiris, PC () is a Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomat. He served as the Attorney General of Sri Lanka from 2008 to 2011 and was the '' de facto'' Chief Justice of Sri Lanka from 2013 to 2015 when President Maithripala Sirisena declared his appointment void ab initio in 2015. He has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations since January 2021 and was elected Vice President of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in June 2023. Education Peiris was educated at St. Joseph's College, Colombo and Royal College, Colombo. He played cricket for both schools. Legal career Following his schooling, Peiris entered the Sri Lanka Law College for his legal studies and was called to the bar on 19 June 1975 as an Attorney-at-law and became a Solicitor of the Courts of England and Wales in 1978. He started his legal practice working under senior lawyers Daya Perera and D. R. P. Gunatilleke after qualifying. Attorney G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palitha Kohona
Palitha T. B. Kohona, a Sri Lankan born diplomat, was the former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations (UN). , '''', 3 October 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2014 Until August 2009, he was the to the of the |
Prasad Kariyawasam
Prasad Kariyawasam is a Sri Lankan diplomat and the former Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the top diplomat in Sri Lanka. He was the International Affairs Adviser to Hon. Karu Jayasooriya, Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.He was the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States. with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner for Sri Lanka to Trinidad & Tobago and Ambassador (designate) to Mexico. He was also the Permanent Observer of Sri Lanka to the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS).He has also served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to India, Afghanistan and Bhutan. Early life Kariyawasam was born on 21 March 1954 in Galle, southern Sri Lanka. He was educated at Richmond College Galle and he captained the college Cricket team in 1972. Also he skippered the Southern Province Schools cricket team and played for All Ceylon Schools Combined team. During his school cricket career, Prasad Kariyawasam scored five centuries. Kariyawasam was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John De Saram
John Henricus de Saram (born 27 June 1929) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomat, who served as Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York. He was a former director of the Office of the Legal Counsel, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs and was a former member of the United Nations International Law Commission. Early life and education Born in Colombo to a family of lawyers, of Dutch and Malay ancestry, De Saram was educated at the Royal College, Colombo, from where he entered the newly established Law Faculty of the University of Ceylon in 1949 and graduated with an LLB shortly he took oaths as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Later he attended Yale Law School as a Smith-mundt Scholar and was admitted as a barrister in the Inner Temple. Legal and diplomatic career He started his career as an assistant lecturer in the law faculty, University of Ceylon in 1952. Thereafter he served as private secretary to the Chief Justice of Ceylon, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Kalpage
Deshamanya Felix Stanley Christopher Perera Kalpage (died 2000) was a Sri Lankan academic and statesman. He was a member of the Senate of Ceylon, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India (1989–1991) and its Permanent Representative to the UN (1991–1994). Educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, he graduated from the University of Ceylon with a degree in chemistry and gained a PhD in Agricultural Chemistry from the University of London. Joining the University of Ceylon as a lecturer, he went on to head the department of agricultural chemistry. In 1965 he was appointed to the Senate, when Dudley Senanayake was Prime Minister. From 1974 to 1977 he served as Professor of Soil Science at the University of Malaya. Returning to Sri Lanka in 1977, he was appointed as Permanent Secretary of the newly formed Ministry of Higher Education. Soon after he was appointed as the first Chairman of the University Grants Commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daya Perera
Lt. Colonel Daya Perera, PC (died June 16, 2013) was a Sri Lankan diplomat and lawyer, who was the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to the United Nations in New York City. Education Educated at Royal College Colombo, Perera excelled in sports gaining college colours for rugby football and playing in the Bradby Shield Encounter as part of the first Royal College team to win the Bradby Shield. After leaving school he studied law at the University of Ceylon and Colombo Law College. Legal career After taking his oaths as an advocate, Perera worked as a crown counsel for the Attorney General's Department. With the formation of the Legal Branch of the Sri Lanka Army, Perera was seconded to the army to serve as an adviser. He was commissioned as a captain in the Ceylon Light Infantry and was promoted as a lieutenant colonel. He attended a course on military law with the Army Legal Services Branch of the British Army. Later he resigned from the Attorney General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissanka Wijewardane
Deshamanya Nissanka Wijewardane (21 October 1925 - 9 May 2019) was a former Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat. He was the former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations. Having graduated from the University of Ceylon, he joined the Ceylon Civil Service having come second in the civil service entrance exam in 1949. He served as a cadet in the Department of Imports and Exports under N. U. Jayawardena; Trincomalee Kachcheri; Galle Kachcheri; Kandy Kachcheri; Department of Land Commissioner and the Department Control of Imports and Exports. He was appointed Additional Assistant Government Agent, Colombo District in March 1951; Deputy Controller of Immigration and Emigration in 1952 and Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Local Government in December 1953. Thereafter he served in the Public Service Commission, Assistant Director of Immigration, Government Agent, Badulla and Kandy. In 1967, he was appointed Secretary to the Governor General of Ceylon, William Gopal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe
Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, CCS (18 March 1913 – 4 December 1980) was a Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant. He was High Commissioner to India and concurrently Ambassador to both Nepal and Afghanistan (1963–1967) and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury and the Ministry of Health. Amerasinghe served as Ceylon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1967 to 1980 and served as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1976. He was also one of the leaders of the negotiations to draft the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Amerasinghe was the close cousin of famed Sri Lankan nation builder Samson Felix Amarasinghe,OBE, (correct spelling Amerasinghe).They were close allies throughout his life. Education Born in Colombo, on 18 March 1913 and hailing from a noble family from Galle. He was educated at Royal College Colombo and went to the Ceylon University College, he took a first class honours BA degree in Western Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merenna Francis De Silva Jayaratne
Merenna Francis de Silva Jayaratne, CCS (born 12 July 1904) was a Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat. He was the Ceylonese Ambassador to the United States, Ceylonese Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Works. Having gained BA degree from the University of London, Jayaratne joined the Ceylon Civil Service in 1927. He served as a cadet in the Colombo Kachcheri and served as office assistant to the Assistant Government Agent, Matale. He then served as a Police Magistrate of Jaffna; office assistant Badulla Kachcheri; Assistant Government Agent, Mullaittivu; Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Lands; Assistant Government Agent, Matara; Assistant Government Agent, Nuwara Eliya; Deputy Controller of Textiles; Director of Commerce and Acting Director of Educatation. He was appointed Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade in 1951 and Permanent Secretary Ministry of Transport and Works i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
