Sri Lanka hosts international confab on terrorism       
[Friday, August 17, 2007 - 4.00 GMT]

Sri Lanka will host an International Conference on Countering Terrorism (ICCT) from October 18-20, 2007 in Colombo. The theme of the conference will be 'Terrorism: A Challenge to Democratically Elected Governments'.
  
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama in a media conference yesterday (16) described it “as a lasting monument to the late Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar”, “so that his memory will be remembered as one not only who has sacrificed his life due to terrorism”, but for his efforts “in bringing the world to understand the effects of terrorism and the need to counter the same.”
  
He said Sri Lanka’s “thirty years of experience and sacrifices made on account of terrorism”, and the manner “in which it is finding its way out of terrorism”, had broader relevance, particularly to developing democracies.    
  
Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake will be the Chief Guest at the inaugural session, while the Special Guest of Honour will be the renowned French investigating magistrate in charge of counter-terrorism affairs Judge Jean Louis Bruguiere. He said, besides being credited as having tracked down and captured one of the world's most wanted terrorists, Carlos (the Jackal) and being involved in the case of UTA Flight 772 which was sabotaged over the Sahara Desert in 1989 with the loss of 170 lives, in more recent years Judge Bruguiere was invited by the US Government to assist in the investigations conducted into the terrorist acts of 9/11 in New York and Washington. He also investigated the LTTE’s illegal fund raising activities in France.  
  



  
  

  
 

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Last Updated Date: August 17, 2007 - 4.00 GMT