{"id":85734,"date":"2019-02-20T15:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85734"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:27:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:27:25","slug":"gender-perspective-and-disarmanent-education-imperative-to-address-new-and-emerging-security-challenges-ambassador-azeez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/20\/gender-perspective-and-disarmanent-education-imperative-to-address-new-and-emerging-security-challenges-ambassador-azeez\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender perspective and disarmanent education imperative to address new and emerging security challenges -Ambassador Azeez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka Permanent Mission\u00a0Geneva<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We need to seriously attempt at negotiating a Programme of Work for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation&#8221;,\u00a0 stated Sri Lanka&#8217;s envoy in Geneva Ambassador A.L.A Azeez addressing the Plenary Session of the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD). He urged members of the CD to find a way forward that could facilitate, or create momentum for, work on all core issues.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka assured Sri Lanka&#8217;s fullest support for all efforts towards generating consensus within CD, building upon the outcome achieved under Sri Lanka&#8217;s presidency of the disarmament forum last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Azeez highlighted the importance of CD being representative enough\u00a0 of the whole range of views and perspectives on critical issues in the disarmament and non-proliferation arena. In this context, he streesed that education and training in disarmament and non -proliferation and integration of a gender perspective were necessary to help advance fully informed, well represented, result oriented negotiation on critical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Noting the stalemate in launching substantive negotiations, he asserted that &#8216;Rules of Procedure should aid, not prevent, deliberations on substantive issues&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He further urged delegations to take a hard look at the challenges that lay ahead, and to consider taking a constructive approach to negotiating a programme of work without further delay.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka Permanent Mission<\/p>\n<p>Geneva<\/p>\n<p>20 February 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Permanent Mission\u00a0Geneva &#8220;We need to seriously attempt at negotiating a Programme of Work for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation&#8221;,\u00a0 stated Sri Lanka&#8217;s envoy in Geneva Ambassador A.L.A Azeez addressing the Plenary Session of the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD). He urged members of the CD to find a way forward that could facilitate, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85734","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=85734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}