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Moragodage Christopher Walter Pinto (commonly known as Chris Pinto) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomat. He was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission and Secretary General of Iran-United States Claims Tribunal as well as a former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States. and the first Legal Adviser of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Educated at the Royal College, Colombo, where he won the Steward Prize and were contemporaries of Gamini Seneviratne and Lal Jayawardena.
He was married to Yasodha Neiliya Jayawardena, daughter of U. N. Jayawardena the former Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon and their son Milinda Moragoda is a former Minister and Senior Adviser to President.
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