The United States Secretary of State John Kerry said that 2015 has seen “important democratic gains” in places across the world, including Sri Lanka, in an op-ed for the Boston Globe.
“The past year also marked important democratic gains in such countries as Nigeria, Burma, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela,” said Mr Kerry, stating that “international leaders have an opportunity to build on several major achievements of 2015”.
Highlighting achievements at the recent Paris climate summit, the normalising of diplomatic ties with Cuba, the establishment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, containing the Ebola outbreak and moving “closer to ending the world’s longest-running civil war” in Colombia, Mr Kerry said “the past year has provided fresh hope that the world community can come together and tackle even the hardest problems”.
“That is good, because the demands of leadership are relentless and, as one calendar is replaced by the next, we must prepare — and, indeed, we are preparing — for the new tests that await,” he concluded.
See his full piece here.
“The past year also marked important democratic gains in such countries as Nigeria, Burma, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela,” said Mr Kerry, stating that “international leaders have an opportunity to build on several major achievements of 2015”.
Highlighting achievements at the recent Paris climate summit, the normalising of diplomatic ties with Cuba, the establishment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, containing the Ebola outbreak and moving “closer to ending the world’s longest-running civil war” in Colombia, Mr Kerry said “the past year has provided fresh hope that the world community can come together and tackle even the hardest problems”.
“That is good, because the demands of leadership are relentless and, as one calendar is replaced by the next, we must prepare — and, indeed, we are preparing — for the new tests that await,” he concluded.
See his full piece here.