Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway and co-chair of Sustainable Development Goals Advocates, delivered this year’s Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Lecture on 12 August 2016.
“I see the set of SDGs as the main track – not a side track – for addressing the root causes of poverty, conflict, violent extremism, refugee crises, youth unemployment, forced migration and global warming,” she said. “We all need to see the link between the long-term work to achieve the SDGs and the comprehensive action needed to address what is broken in our world.”
The Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI), is a multi-disciplinary research forum dedicated to analysing Sri Lanka’s strategic interests in the realm of international relations, within contemporary domestic and global contexts. The Institute is named after the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s former Foreign Minister.
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