Intervening during an Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Maina Kiai  at the ongoing 23rd Session of the Human Rights Council on Thursday  Sri Lanka’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Manisha Gunasekera said “while Sri Lanka agrees that access to resources is important for the vibrant functioning of civil society  we observe that Kiai does not seem to adequately take into account “the negative impact of lack of or insufficient regulation of funding of associations on national security and counter-terrorism”