UNESCO ExCo Chairman condemns LTTE bomb attack in A'pura

UNESCO Executive Committee Chairman Olabiyi Babalola Joseph Yai expressed deepest condolences to Sri Lanka on the LTTE suicide bomb attack in Anuradhapura on October 5 killing General Janaka Perera and 27 others.

He urged the Sri Lankan delegate to the UNESCO Executive Committee, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha to convey his condolences to the families of the victims.

Immediately after Mr Premajayantha's speech at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, Mr. Yai, who is also the permanent delegate of Benin expressed his sympathies on behalf of the Unesco Executive Committee. He offered the international community's support for the fight against terrorism. The Chairman looked at Mr Premajayantha and said, "We are with you".

"The Secretary-General strongly condemns acts of this kind that have caused [the] death and injury of many civilians.