Sri Lanka to UN: ‘Set up expert body on terrorism’
[November 16, 2001 - 11.15 GMT]

Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Lakshman Kadirgamar addressing the 56^th Session of the UN General Assembly Tuesday, proposed that the UN set up a body comprising an international group of eminent persons to report to the world body on terrorism and its prevention.

He said that terrorism must be fought, and continue to be fought, relentlessly and by everyone everywhere. Sooner, rather than later, he said, the international community would have to give its collective mind to the question of analyzing and diagnosing the causes of terrorism, preventing and finally eliminating terrorism before it becomes a problem of such deadly dimensions that it threatens the whole world.

Minister Kadirgamar highlighted the fact that the causes of terrorism such as poverty, hunger, ignorance and injustice should be examined and eliminated to find a lasting solution for global terrorism.

“It is axiomatic that a contented people do not rise up to destroy the society in which they live. If the world has become a village surely we must take care to ensure that villagers living down one road in the village are not given cause to become resentful and angry at the opulence enjoyed by other villagers living down another road, only a stone's throw away,” he added. 

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Last Updated Date: November 16, 2001  -  11.15 GMT.