South Africa: Nation Calls for Durable and Lasting Peace in Sri Lanka

press release

In August 2012, the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Ebrahim Ebrahim, accompanied by a civil society delegation, visited Sri Lanka to meet with the leaders of the Sri Lankan government, the Tamil community, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other stakeholders. The visit formed part of the ongoing efforts aimed at addressing the need for the resolution of the outstanding issues following the end in May 2009 of the bloody civil war in that country.

The visit followed an earlier meeting in March 2012, held in Pretoria, between the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, Ms Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, and the Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka, Professor GL Peiris, where the two ministers discussed, among other things, the need for the two countries to strengthen and deepen their cooperation and people-to-people contacts in the context of the resolution of the Tamil Question in Sri Lanka.

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