During his career in the foreign service De Alwis has served as Assistant High Commissioner for Ceylon in Madras (1962–66);Chargéd'Affaires of the Ceylon's Embassy in Indonesia;First Secretary of Ceylon's embassy in Washington DC (1970–74). In 1974 he was appointed as Sri Lankan Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva,a post he held till 1978.[citation needed] In 1973 he was a signatory of Intelsat.[5] In 1978,he was chairman of the Co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries.[6] From 1980 to 1983 he served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to Japan and South Korea and Ambassador for Sri Lanka in the United States from 1986 to 1992.[citation needed] In 1987,he was elected chairman of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.[7]
His brothers Dunstan De Alwis was a lawyer and President's Counsel and Dr Stanmore De Alwis a Thoracic Surgeon. Of his sisters eldest Sushila De Silva was a teacher at Yashodara Balika,Borella,Dr Thelma Gunawardene was the former Director of the Colombo National Museum and Dr Daisy Jayawickrema former Medical Officer,CPC. He was married to Achala and had two daughters,Chamini,Darshini and a son Ruvan. He died at his home in Bambalapitiya on 22 December 2008.
↑ Jankowitsch, Odette, and Karl P. Sauvant. "The third world without superpowers: the collected documents of the non-aligned countries-v. 1-4." (1978). p40
↑ Intelsat OKs Dean Burch as chief. Washington Times (Washington (DC), District of Columbia) Thursday, April 2, 1987, Page: 19
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