Ministers Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, Champika Ranawaka and Mano Ganeshan accompanied the President. Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana also arrived in New York.On September 24, President Sirisena was one of the speakers at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, the most important global peace event organised on the sidelines of the 73rd Session of the UNGA. The event was organised to mark Mandela’s birth centenary.