Former CJ presents credentials to UN Secretary-General as SL permanent rep. to UN

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Former Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, P.C, the new Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres yesterday.

He was appointed as the 47th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka in April 2019.

Mr.Jayasuirya joined the Attorney General’s Department in November 1983 as a State Counsel and served in various capacities and was appointed as President’s Counsel in March 2012.

He was appointed as the 29th Attorney General in February 2016 and remained the Attorney General until his elevation as the Chief Justice.

He served as Trial Attorney in the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UN-ICTY) from September 2001 to August 2004 and for Rwanda (UN-ICTR) from November 2000 to August 2001.

He was also an examiner and visiting lecturer of Sri Lanka Law College and the Kotalawala Defence University, a member of Sri Lanka Child Protection Authority and a consultant of the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Central Bank.

He is a Commonwealth Scholar (1992). He was awarded the, “Best Prosecutor 2012” by the International Association of Prosecutors, International Fellow of the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute, USA.

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