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Date: September 18, 1997
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister to Address
Country's Ethnic ConflictPrinceton, N.J. -- Lakshman Kadirgamar, MP, minister of foreign affairs of Sri Lanka, will give a lecture entitled "Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka Today" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, September 30, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium.
Appointed President's Counsel in 1991, Kadirgamar has served the Sri Lankan government in various capacities. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property, the Foreign Affairs Study Group, and the Panel of Consultants on Law Reform. He was also chair of the Committee for Upgrading Consultancy Services in the Construction Industry. A lawyer, Kadirgamar served as a consultant to the International Labour Organization in Geneva in 1974, and joined the World Intellectual Property Organization (wipo) in 1976. He went on to become the director of the wipo, advising governments of developing countries in Asia and the Pacific on intellectual property.
Kadirgamar trained as a lawyer in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) and practiced law there from 1960 to 1971 and before the Privy Council, London, from 1955 to 1960 and from 1971 to 1974. In 1988, after his tenure with the WIPO, he resumed his law practice in Sri Lanka, concentrating on a number of legal areas, including commercial, administrative, intellectual property, industrial and labor, constitutional, and international law. Kadirgamar is the author of numerous articles on legal issues in such international journals as Modern Law Review , The South African Law Journal , The Conveyancer , and Property Law .
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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