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| Monday, 16 June 2003 |
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by Sarath Malalasekera Dr. Sarat Chandran, Secretary-General, Colombo Plan Secretariat retired recently after serving the Colombo Plan Secretariat for the last four years. Dr. Sarat Chandran was the Secretary-General of the Colombo Plan Secretariat, the oldest inter-governmental organisation in Asia and the Pacific since April 1999, on secondment from the Government of India. The Colombo Plan was established in 1951, emanating from the joint suggestion by the late Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene and Australian Foreign Minister Sir Percy Spender at the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers Conference held in Colombo in 1950. Ambassador of the People's Bureau of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Abdulkarim Ali Abdulkarim made a special presentation at the farewell party to Dr. Sarat Chandran, Ms. Sati Chandran and their two children held in Colombo recently. Dr. Sarat Chandran, is a graduate fellow Under the World Bank Fellowship Programme, Ph.D at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, and is a member of the permanent Civil Service of the Government of India. At present Dr. Sarat Chandran is the head of the International Organisation of the Colombo Plan Secretariat. From July 1995 to April 1999 he was the joint secretary, Government of India, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance Policy making in External Comercial Borrowing, Capital market development, Macro Debt Management and Analysis of Macro Economic Policy issues. The last four years, the Colombo Plan under Dr. Sarat Chandran has seen a substantial expansion of activities of the Colombo Plan under the different programmes including the programme of Public Adminstration, the programme for private sector development and the drug Advisory programme The last four years also saw several new initiatives such as the inter-regional initiative on South-South cooperation, that is, the Colombo plan-Africa Initiative to share the experience of Asia with Africa, the private sector initiative of networking of small and medium enterprises inthe Asia-Pacific region to promote trade investment and business creation, networking of institutes of excellence in the region to future strengthen and deepen south-south cooperation, the cardinal principle of all Colombo Plan programmes, the Colombo Plan-Afghanistan initiative in the area of drugs, global networking for primary prevention in the area of drugs. |
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