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Sri Lanka suggested the UN to set up a body comprising international group of eminent persons to report to the World body on terrorism and its prevention.

Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday suggested that the UN General Assembly (GA) consider the convening of an international group of eminent persons with the appropriate backgrounds from all relevant fields, representative of all regions of the world, appointed by the President of the GA, the President of the Security Council and the Secretary-General, with the request that they report to the GA and the Security Council and the Secretary-General within an appropriate time-frame: on terrorism and its prevention.

Sri Lanka's suggestion goes into detail in finding root causes of terrorism.

Minister Kadirgamar emphasised that the world which is now combating against terrorism will have to give its collective mind to the question of analysing and diagnosing the causes of terrorism, preventing and finally eliminating terrorism before it becomes a problem of such deadly dimensions that it threatens the world body.

"It is not a manifestation of weakness for the international community to examine the root causes of terrorism. It is axiomatic that a contented people do not rise up to destroy the society in which they live," Minister Kadirgamar said.

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