Mangala appoints new Board of Management at Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute
Thursday, 26 February 2015 01:03
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Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera has appointed a new Board of Management at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS).
Whilst the Minister is the Chairman, the new Board comprises Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Suganthi Kadirgamar, Dr. Ram Manikkalingam, Mano Tittawella, Iqbal Athas, Saliya Pieris and Azam Bakeer Markar.
Minister Samaraweera yesterday chaired the first meeting of the new Board.
The LKIIRSS is a multi-disciplinary research forum dedicated to analysing Sri Lanka’s strategic interests in the realm of international relations, within the contemporary domestic and global contexts. This Institute functions as a forum for the generation of research and analysis, with a view to providing an input to national policy formulation. LKIIRSS’ training arm is the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute.
The successor to the Sri Lanka Institute of Strategic Studies (SLISS), LKIIRSS was established by the enactment of SLISS (Amendment) Act, No. 32 of 2006, to the SLISS Act, No. 45 of 2000, which was certified on 26 September 2006. The Institute was officially inaugurated on 10 August 2006.
The Institute is named after the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, P.C., M.P., three-times Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, who served in this capacity from 1994-2000, 2000-2001 and 2004-2005.
