UNSG creating a precedent

The reason for appointing of a panel of experts to advise the Secretary General are not exactly clear. We know that the vast majority of the members of United Nations did not ask for it. We are fully aware that none of the decision-making bodies of UN, the Security Council or the General Assembly had asked the Secretary General to appoint such a panel of experts. In fact when a resolution was moved in the Human Rights Council it was defeated by substantial majority 29 to 12.

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On getting ambushed at the intersection of word and silence

Some stories get written, others are stillborn. We break narrative into chapter, fracture sentence with punctuation, for purposes of coherence and to give reader breathing-moment, but there always comes a moment when the inkwell of memory runs dry and the carbon of recording runs out of time and is appropriated by other authors and is arrested by other narratives. This, more than coherence-requirement and reader-relief, is what makes narrator call for full stops.

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Third South Asian Commodity Fair in Kunming:

Promoting Sri Lanka-China trade ties

The fair was opened by Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Wang Qishan, in the presence of Chinese Deputy Commerce Minister and leading officials of the Yunnan Province CCPIT and related agencies. Finance and Planning Deputy Minister and Senior Advisor to President Dr Sarath Amunugama graced the occasion together with other Governmental delegations from South Asian countries as well as their Ministers of International Trade, Ambassadors and Commercial Counsellors from South Asia.

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