INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has reinstated the fact that Sri Lanka is not alone in the crisis it is currently
to feel the weight of political and economic pressure
The pressure can be hard to bear
It can be destabilizing, isolating, and frightening, and I am here because I want every Sri Lankan to know that you are not alone
the only country amidst a crisis right now.She noted that currently, countries across the globe are facing the social, political and
all living in a world under pressure
All of us are tightly bound by a tangled knot of crisis-spanning global systems
her fruitful ties with Sri Lanka and the Asian and African continents as whole but also because Sri Lanka was first admitted to the
outcome of a discussion or firstly, increasing the number of think tanks and research institutes in the country
Secondly, to focus on international affairs, thirdly, not merely to cover the whole range of international affairs, but to focus on the area
which was of concern to us where we are located in the Indian Ocean, its geopolitical aspects
Its geo-economic aspects, its environmental aspects fall into either geopolitical or geo-economics.And it was called the geopolitical
cartographer because now the maps are drawn and boundaries are drawn not according to geography, but according to geopolitics
For a long time, we belonged to a region known as the Indian Ocean, and all of a sudden it became the Indo-Pacific
So that is geopolitical cartography
In the same way, Europe has a problem now with where to draw the boundaries between Russia and Ukraine
It keeps changing throughout the world.Various claims are made, but we have to learn now that cartography depends completely on geopolitics
So we called the name geopolitical cartographer but was to discuss how geopolitics and geo-economics were changing the Indian Ocean, the
most vital ocean in the world till about the 18th century
This was also the richest.In time to come, before the end of the century again, you will find first the development of South Asia of
Indonesia and Southeast Asia of the Middle East
And the first person to come here and to be invited here is none other than the Secretary General of the Commonwealth
Our entry to the UN was blocked because the US had blocked some of the Soviet countries and in return, the Soviet Union blocked Sri Lanka
It was only in 1955 that we became a member of the United Nations
But from the beginning, we have been with the Commonwealth.It was only correct that the Secretary General of the Commonwealth should be here
on our 75th Anniversary of Independence
You were there when we got independence and you all are here now
So it is to mark that occasion as she was invited here by the government to take part in the 75th Anniversary of our Independence.But today
So I would like to invite her to address all of you and the numerous crises that she is going to now explain and layout.
