Ambassador Dr. Amrith Rohan Perera, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka in a statement delivered at the Global Counter Terrorism Strategy Plenary Meeting at the UN General Assembly on 26 June 2018, said that as a country that once suffered under the yoke of terrorism for nearly thirty years and successfully eradicated the scourge from its shores in 2009, Sri Lanka is acutely aware of the need for sharing information technology, databases, and intelligence in combating terrorism.

H.E. Dr. Rohan Perera, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN in New York, in his capacity as the Vice-President of the 11^th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, co-chaired a roundtable on the topic of women and girls with disabilities on 13 June 2018 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, together with Ms.

Sri Lanka participated in the World Environment Day 2018, organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in association with the global co-host for this year, the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations on 5 June 2018.