வடமாகாணசபையின் புதிய ஆளுநராக எச்.எம்.ஜி.எஸ்.பலிகக்கார

 வடமாகாணசபையின் புதிய ஆளுநராக எச்.எம்.ஜி.எஸ்.பலிகக்கார நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.இவர் கடந்த காலங்களில் ஜெனீவாவிலுள்ள ஐநா அலுவலகத்துக்கான இலங்கை பிரதிநிதியாக பணியாற்றியவராகும் 

. A prominent Sri Lankan diplomat and former Foreign Secretary H. M. G. S. Palihakkara has been appointed as the Governor of the Northern Province.

The Government has appointed a non-military civil servant as the Governor.

Mr Palihakkara was former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations. He has served on the Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. He retired as the Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka in December 2006 after 38 years of civil and diplomatic service.

Since the 1990s, he has served on a number of assignments to the United Nations in Geneva and New York. Mr Palihakkara served as Acting Director-General and Deputy Director-General of Sri Lanka's Peace Secretariat (SCOPP), which serviced the Norwegian-facilitated peace talks (2002) and subsequent ceasefire (2003).

Among other positions, he was Director-General of Multilateral Affairs at Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry, covering work related to preventative diplomacy, peace-building, arms control and non-proliferation.

He has also served as one of members of Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).

Courtesy : President Media Unit