{"id":89295,"date":"2019-05-24T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89295"},"modified":"2019-05-24T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T22:56:06","slug":"sri-lankas-mine-action-efforts-a-model-for-the-world-say-global-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/24\/sri-lankas-mine-action-efforts-a-model-for-the-world-say-global-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s mine action efforts a model for the world, say global experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\">Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\">Geneva<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka\u2019s sustained focus on mine risk education and awareness creation makes it\nan exemplary model for the rest of the world, international experts\nparticipating in an interactive panel discussion, chaired by Ambassador A.L.A.\nAzeez, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva, reiterated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deliberating\non the sidelines of the Intersessional Meeting of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban\nConvention (APMBC) held from 22 to 24 May 2019, experts\nin mine action, humanitarian disarmament and human rights appreciated the\nremarkable progress achieved by Sri Lanka in mine clearance, mine risk\neducation and victim assistance, paving the way for the return of, and housing\nand livelihoods for, thousands of affected people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nwell-attended panel discussion \u2018Towards a mine-free Sri Lanka in 2020:\nChallenges and Prospects for Partnerships\u2019, drew in representatives of\ninternational organisations, implementing partners and the donor community, in\naddition to several mine action experts, academics and diplomats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. V.\nSivagnanasothy, Secretary to the Ministry of National Policies, Economic\nAffairs, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, Northern Development and Youth\nAffairs, Ambassador Hans Brattskar, Permanent Representative of Norway to the\nUN in Geneva and the President of the forthcoming 4<sup>th<\/sup> Review\nConference of the APMBC, Ms. Asa Massleberg, Advisor &#8211; Strategic Management of\nthe Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining and Ms. S.\nJaladeepan, Director and National Focal Point coordinating the National Mine\nAction Programme, made presentations at the discussion, sharing their views and\nperspectives on Sri Lanka\u2019s achievements as well as challenges\nfaced.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka\u2019s success in establishing an effective national ownership of its mine\naction program, integrating gender diversity into it, collaborating effectively\nwith international stakeholders, and contributing to the development of\ncommunities, received special commendation at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN Geneva Sri Lanka\u2019s sustained focus on mine risk education and awareness creation makes it an exemplary model for the rest of the world, international experts participating in an interactive panel discussion, chaired by Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89295","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=89295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}