It is my pleasure to issue a message for the website created to facilitate the United Nations Declaration of Millennium Development Goals which means “For while globalization offers great opportunities, at present its benefits are very unevenly shared, while its costs are unevenly distributed.”

The Government of Sri Lanka has recognized all sixteen development goals, out of which nine have been addressed directly by the ten year horizon development time framework, namely “Mahinda Chinthanaya”. This program has recognized regional balanced growth with poverty eradication within the Island.

The National Council for Economic Development (NCED) is where the country’s MDG support program implementation is established to achieve the balanced economic growth with active and effective participation of the private sector and civil society, reaching MDG goals ahead of other countries in the globe.

The NCED/MDG secretariat has evolved freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature, and shared responsibility to be assured in the national development of the country.

This website is developed to reach this noble task of the country and as Executive Director of the NCED I am proud of the goals and its objectives. It is my duty to indicate that this initial website may not be meeting all our aspiration but we are taking the first step towards a long journey.

I myself am looking forward to see more golden lines in the future of this web to go far with eye-opening work of the NCED.

Dr Don S. Jayaweera (Ph.D)
Executive Director and National Programme Director.