US representative to the UN Samantha Power who is on a three day visit to Sri Lanka said Sri Lanka gave the rest of the world hope in how it managed to eventually end a lengthy insurgency.
“There are a lot of difficult things that are happening around the world. As we have seen the attacks in Paris, yesterday Bamako Mali, before that Beirut, Baghdad, Ankara.
It is a very difficult time for a lot of communities. Sri Lanka really stands out as a place and a people who have given the world a great hope.
This is a country that has dealt with terrorism itself and now dealing with very difficult legacies of a long and very arduous civil conflict, but it is putting one foot in front of the other, facing hard problems and again showing no signs of moving away from confronting the difficult issues of the past to help contribute to that brighter future.” She said.
