{"id":111863,"date":"2013-10-27T21:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=111863"},"modified":"2013-10-27T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T15:41:46","slug":"lanka-takes-leadership-on-colombo-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lanka-takes-leadership-on-colombo-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanka Takes Leadership On Colombo Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has assumed the Chair of the Colombo Process, a Regional Consultative Process on the management of overseas employment and contractual labour for countries of origin in Asia,<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40852\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-appoints-new-ambassador-to-u-n\/ravinatha-aryasinha-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40852\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40852\" title=\"Ravinatha Aryasinha\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ravinatha-Aryasinha1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ravinatha-Aryasinha1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ravinatha-Aryasinha1-800x503.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ravinatha-Aryasinha1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ravinatha Aryasinha - Ambassador Geneva<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Colombo Process was initiated at Ministerial Consultations for Asian Labour Sending Countries held in 2003 in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairmanship of the Colombo Process was transferred from the Government of Bangladesh to the Government of Sri Lanka during a meeting held at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Geneva on 21 October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The group includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, and has met in Manila (2004), Bali (2005) and Dhaka (2011) to review and monitor the implementation of previous recommendations and identify areas for future actions. The Geneva headquartered International Organization for Migration (IOM) serves as the secretariat for the Colombo Process.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion Sri Lanka&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ravinatha+Aryasinha&amp;x=12&amp;y=2\">Ravinatha Aryasinha<\/a><\/span> said with 21% of its working population working overseas and 46% of them women Sri Lanka takes the issue of labour migration very seriously and will bring to bear Sri Lanka&#8217;s experience on the Colombo Process.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Abdul Hannan, said he was pleased with what his government\u2019s chairmanship had accomplished, and was happy to be handing over the chairmanship to Sri Lanka, the birthplace of the Colombo Process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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