Sri Lanka ratifies International convention for suppression of terrorism

NEW YORK: Sri Lanka on Thursday ratified the International Convention for the Suppression of Nuclear Terrorism.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama who is in New York to attend the 62nd United Nations General Assembly deposited the relevant instrument of ratification with the UN Under Secretary General in charge of Treaties.

Addressing a simple ceremony to mark the occasion, the Minister said that Sri Lanka has always strongly advocated the need to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

Sri Lanka is a party to 11 of the 13 UN Conventions on the suppression of terrorism including the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, he said.

He further pointed out that Sri Lanka has served as the Chairman of the UN Ad-Hoc Committee on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, and that it was among the first signatories to the Nuclear Terrorism Convention which was successfully concluded in 2005 under its chairmanship.

The Under Secretary General commended Sri Lanka’s consistent support for building the legal infrastructure in the global combat against terrorism.