The Sri Lankan government will ratify the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearances when the parliament endorses it within the next few months, a senior minister said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera addressing a meeting of the collective of the families of missing persons in Akkaraipattu in Ampara district yesterday said the government has signed the UN Convention and it will be presented in parliament within the next two or three months.
Sri Lanka has become a signatory to the convention on December 10, 2015, five years after it entered into force on December 23, 2010, and has not yet ratified the instrument, which is crucial to the fight against impunity and the right of victims to justice and reparations. The Minister has told the families that the era of missing persons will be eradicated forever from the country.
The Constitutional Council has approved four nominees, proposed by the President, to fill vacancies in the Court of Appeal.
The Election Commission has announced the plan for leave for both public and private sector employees for the upcoming presidential election on September 21, 2024, without loss of salary or personal leave.
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) will reduce fuel prices with effect from midnight today.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe today called on ITAK’s Mavai Senathiraja at his residence in Jaffna today.
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