Address to the Asia Society, Washington DC, September 12, 2005

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI greeting

Jayantha Dhanapala, Rome, November 2005

Receiving the 'Alan Cranston Peace Award', New York, April 16, 2002

With Dr. Javier Solana, EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy in Brussels, 2006.

As President, Conference on Disarmament,

with US Vice-President, George Bush Sr. 1984-Geneva

With Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi at Secretariat for

Co-ordinating the Peace Process, Colombo, 2005

With Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani High Commission, Colombo, November 22, 2004

With Hon Shinzo Abe, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan, 2005

Appointment as Commissioner to the United Nations Special Commission and the Head of the Special Group visiting the presidential sites in Iraq, 1998

Receiving Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2003

Receiving the Pax Christi Ireland Peace

Award, 2002

Addressing the UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons as Under-Secretary General Dept

of Disarmament Affairs , 2001

Inaugural speaker at the 'Prominent Speakers Series', Elliot School of International Affairs,

George Washington University, Fall Term, 1998

Receiving the 'Lifetime Achievement Award', Centre for Non-Proliferation Studies

Monterey Institute for International Studies, 1998

Appointment as Senior Advisor to His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, December, 2005

Mohamed Sahabdeen Award for 'Peace and International Understanding' Lecture, 2005

President, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference, April 1995

Presentation of credentials as newly appointed Sri Lankan Ambassador to the USA to President William Clinton at the

White House, Washington DC, March 1995 

Appointment as Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the USA and Ambassador of Mexico (concurrent), 1995

Appointment as Deputy High Commissioner, Sri Lanka High Commission, New Delhi, India, 1981

Winner, Herald Tribune

Essay Competition, with

President (then Senator)

John F Kennedy,1957

Presidential Adviser meeting United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in Tokyo

with Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera, 2006