{"id":84112,"date":"2018-12-13T05:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84112"},"modified":"2018-12-13T05:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:29:31","slug":"sri-lanka-pledges-support-for-protection-of-refugees-at-the-2019-unhcr-global-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/13\/sri-lanka-pledges-support-for-protection-of-refugees-at-the-2019-unhcr-global-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka pledges support for protection of refugees at the 2019 UNHCR Global Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to UN Geneva<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At the 2019 Global Appeal of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) held in Geneva today, Sri Lanka expressed its earnest desire that the commitments made by the international community to the recently adopted Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) would remain on course, emphasizing transforming the Compact into meaningful, practical measures would help address the protection needs of millions of people who remain helpless and in need\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Conference, Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka in Geneva echoed optimism that, at a time when the principles and values of international cooperation have come under immense pressure\u201d, the GCR has emerged as a rallying point for multilateralism and solidarity\u201d, as reiterated in the UNHCR\u2019s Global Appeal Update, and highlighted the more pronounced role of UNHCR in this context.<\/p>\n<p>At this Global Appeal, Sri Lanka pledged a modest financial contribution to the UNHCR\u2019s 2019 programmes, in continued appreciation of the role and contribution of UNHCR and in earnest expectation that the UN Refugee Agency would be \u2018empowered\u2019 to deliver more strengthened assistance and protection as part of its mandate.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, Ambassador Azeez also conveyed Sri Lanka\u2019s appreciation for the support extended by UNHCR under national resettlement programmes in partnership with stakeholders, as well as for the UNHCR\u2019s important role with regard to assistance for returnees.<\/p>\n<p>The full statement made by Sri Lanka at the event is attached.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to UN<\/p>\n<p>Geneva<\/p>\n<p>12 Decembe 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to UN Geneva At the 2019 Global Appeal of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) held in Geneva today, Sri Lanka expressed its earnest desire that the commitments made by the international community to the recently adopted Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) would remain on course, emphasizing transforming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}