Sri Lankan Envoy to UN calls on UNSG

Dr. Palitha Kohona, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in conversation with Secretary General Ban Ki moon.

The photo was taken at the reception organized in honor of the Secretary General by the International Association of Permanent Representatives to the UN, at hotel “Pierre” in New York.

 

Subsequently, the SG addressed the Ambassadors highlighting his work on various issues in 2010 which ranged from the Referendum in South Sudan and its vast implications, involvement in the volatile situation in Sierra Leone following the recent elections, The outcome of the climate change negotiations in Cancun, which he described as a “Victory for the good, over the best”, his visit to the former nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan and his visit to Japan.