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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct
- Benjamin Disraeli

 

President at UN Vesak Day:

Buddha’s teachings can resolve today’s conflicts too

It is a great joy to be amongst you today as we celebrate the United Nations Day of Vesak, here in Bangkok. At the very outset, allow me to thank the Royal Thai government, United Nations and the International Council for Day of Vesak, for the organization of this event, and also for the recognition given to this most important day in the Buddhist calendar.

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Economics driving politics globally, but posers remain

With economics increasingly driving politics in the current world order, the reported decision by the US to beef-up its naval muscle in the Asia-Pacific region may have come as somewhat of a surprise to many an observer. The development could seem to be a reconfirmation of the widely held perception that a rising US-China power struggle would be an essential feature of the emerging international power system.

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Dramatic night at President’s House 25 years ago

With the collapse of Elephant Pass on April 22 dramatic developments started taking place, again with talks of Indian food relief and humanitarian aid, possible mediation by friendly countries, and intervention by the UN Security Council - this time turning an internal conflict of Sri Lanka into an issue of internationalised dimension. Information Technology made it so fast. The preceding few weeks witnessed a situation highly tense and volatile.

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Former combatants

Another area which does not figure to any great extent in the National Human Rights Action Plan, but which is also of great concern currently, is that of former LTTE combatants. This is understandable for the intial draft of the Plan was prepared in 2009, and concurrently our ministry was working, with ILO assistance, on a rehabilitation and reintegration programme for those combatants. So a field of action which seemed a temporary problem rather than something to be entrenched in a national plan was omitted, since it should have been dealt with through special provisions.

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