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Part 4
Initially, Samarasinghe`s delegation to Geneva, among others, comprised the following: Solicitor General C.R. de Silva, Secretary, Ministry of Justice Suhada Gamlath, Serala Fernando, PR in Geneva, Deputy Solicitor General Yasantha Kodagoda, Deputy Solicitor General Shavindra Fernando, Deputy Inspector General of Police (International Affairs), Asoka Wijetilleke, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Human Rights and Disaster Management, D.K.D. Amerawardena, Deputy Director of the UN Division in the Foreign Ministry, S.P. Pathirana. Director (Legal Division), Sri Lanka Army, Brigadier Mohanti Peiris and Chief Legal Officer of the Sri Lanka Air Force, Group Captain Ramya Dehideniya. Later, the Government had to dispatch two more to join the team during interactive sessions. One was eminent lawyer and one time Sri Lanka`s Permanent Representatives at the United Nations, Daya Perera. The other was Dayan Jayatilleke, one time activisit of the Eelam People`s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) which was then fighting for a separate state in North and East Sri Lanka. He is now a staunch supporter of the Rajapaksa Administration. Jayatilleke was at one time a Minister of the North East Provincial Council, whose Chief Minister, Varadaraja Perumal, once unilaterally declared independence (UDI) at a ceremony in Trincomalee. In the recent months, Jayatilleke, playing the role of columnist, lecturer and campaigner has not only been a strong defender of Government policies but also a bitter critic of those who expressed diverse views against such policies. Jayatilleke has been named the new Permanent Representative for the United Nations in Geneva to replace Serala Fernando. The move will mean the cancellation of the appointment of Gita de Silva, a senior career officer who has on recent occasions acted as Foreign Secretary. Her appointment was cleared by the High Posts Committee in Parliament and her agremot has been accepted by the UN. A similar cancellation of a diplomatic appointment has been of Clarence Chinniah, who was named as Sri Lanka`s envoy to Italy. His name too was cleared by the High Posts Committee after his nomination was accepted by the High Posts Committee. The Government has now begun second guessing its own appointments, appointing and sacking their appointees even before they have assumed office. It was only on Thursday that German envoy to the UN in Geneva, Michael Steiner, spoke on behalf of the European Union, and raised issue over what sort of action the international community, should take to work with the Government of Sri Lanka. He raised issue barely days after a four member Civil Monitoring Committee met in Colombo with German Ambassador Juergen Weerth. The four were Suresh Premachandran, Mano Ganesan, Lakshman Kiriella, all parliamentarians and Siritunga Jayasinghe. |
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