Lanka can enthrone justice now - Judge Weeramanthry
Ramani KANGARAARACHCHI
There is a unique opportunity to set an example to the world to build
peace not only in Sri Lanka but internationally through enthroning
justice, former Vice President of the International Court of Justice, C.
G. Weeramanthry said.
Speaking at the UN Day celebrations organized by the United Nations
Association Sri Lanka at Royal College Colombo on Saturday, he said the
UN and its Charter shows the way to do it and we should give all the
support respecting UN, International Court of Justice and International
Law and that way alone we can save humanity and the planet from
destruction.
Justice Weeramanthry said we should realize its importance from the
school level upwards and have peace education in schools to teach
children with what difficulty the United Nations was achieved.
The Peace Education Centre is formulating ways and means of carrying
this knowledge to people that every one can do something in this
direction and spread an awareness of the history of peace, its
philosophers, and ingredients.
Sri Lanka is in a unique position to give leadership in this regard,
as it has one of the most ancient traditions of international relations
with ambassadors in the Courts of Rome and China and monastic
universities which trained thousands of students from the Middle East to
China over 2000 years ago.
UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka Neil Buhne said the UN team in
Sri Lanka is united to make not just the world but more specially Sri
Lanka a safer and better place.
"The last 12 months in Sri Lanka have seen historic changes and the
UN team has always been helping people, in support of Government
efforts, where there was a need," he said.
He said that the UN was created to help countries and people rebuild
after war and the challenges facing Sri Lanka today after the victory in
May are much smaller in scale than those faced in 1945 but some are
similar in nature such as rebuilding lives affected after war and
rebuilding confidence.
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