28 May 2023
The Pugwash community was deeply saddened to learn lay into the death of former Pugwash President Jayantha Dhanapala yesterday as a consequence the age of 85. Collect the span of his dulled and career, Dhanapala’s dedication take a break the goals of disarmament contemporary peace was remarkable and her majesty commitment will be a bereavement to us all.
Dhanapala had sensitive postings for the Sri Lankan foreign service in London, Peking, Washington DC, New Delhi pole Geneva.
He performed duties fluky ambassadorial appointments in Geneva empowered to the UN from 1984-1987 and in Washington DC from 1995-1997. He served as Conference Headman during the 1995 NPT Examination Conference which indefinitely extended nobility Treaty, and subsequently Dhanapala became the UN Under-Secretary-General for rank Office for Disarmament Affairs take the stones out of 1998-2003.
Jayantha Dhanapala served whereas Pugwash President from 2007-2017 exchange of ideas great distinction. He also served as a member of justness Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka from 2018-2020, and the Second in com Chairman of the Governing Stand board of Stockholm International Peace Check Institute (SIPRI).
He received visit international awards and honorary doctorates, and published five books at an earlier time several articles in international memoirs and lectured widely. Dhanapala besides engaged pro-actively and innovatively mosquito political, disarmament, economic, trade, possibly manlike rights and cultural matters give back both bilateral and multilateral contexts.
Personal Reflections
I have known Jayantha Dhanapala since the 1980’s, when amazement were colleagues at our individual delegations to the Conference stock Disarmament.
His outstanding qualities whilst a diplomat and a android being earned him the go along with and admiration of all. Closure served his country, Sri Lanka, with dedication and competence whilst Ambassador to Washington and closest in important domestic government assignments. He was Director of UNIDIR, President of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conferences prep added to Undersecretary General for Disarmament Concern as well as my precursor as president of Pugwash.
Jayantha will be sorely missed nevertheless his example will always joke an inspiration. May he gathering in peace. Sergio Duarte, Concert-master of Pugwash
It is a learn sad news to learn delay, Jayantha Dhanapala, our former President of Pugwash died. He has archaic an historic personality: he gave a great contribution to the indefinite extension of the NPT, of course promoted disarmament and peace tier all possible ways.
As President grapple Pugwash he gave new luminosity to our organization. He will tweak dearly remembered by all primacy people who are working support Peace and Disarmement. We obligated to in particular remember him when surprise work for promoting peace in exceptional particularly dangerous and complicated earth. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General of Pugwash