Under Secretary General Jayantha Dhanapala from the U.N.'s disarmament affairs will make a two-day visit to Seoul from Wednesday at the invitation of the Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry.

A government official said...during his stay, Dhanapala will pay a courtesy call to Foreign Minister Lee Joung-binn and deliver a speech on the U.N.'s role in disarmament at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security.

The 63-year-old Sri Lankan is an expert in disarmament and international security and has been in office since Feb. 1998. His area of speciality is missile non-proliferation, nuclear weapons reduction and control of small arms trafficking.

His visit to Seoul is the first of its kind.