International Affairs

Two airlines that had suspended flights to Sri Lanka due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have resumed their operations,BIA duty officer said.

The U.N. secretary-general called on the world’s largest economies Wednesday to create a task force to plan and coordinate a global COVID-19 vaccination plan. 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says services at the Consulate General office in Milan, Italy could be obtained by reserving a prior time slot online.

Facebook is facing mounting criticism after it blocked news content in Australia amid a dispute with the government over a planned law.

Sri Lanka will open new embassies in Spain, Romania as well as a Consulate General Office in Madagascar, Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena informed the consultative committee on the Ministry.

In response to concerns raised by India about a Chinese company involved in some power projects in the North, the Chinese embassy said yesterday (15) it was purely a commercial activity undertaken through an open international bidding process.

The United States (US) has expressed disappointment with Sri Lanka’s discriminatory cremation policy.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and the Government of Sri Lanka have welcomed a funding of CAD 1 million (Rs. 151 million) from Global Affairs Canada to help smallholder farmers cultivate nutritious crops for the National School Meal Program.

AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, a move that will boost global supplies in the coming weeks.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පැවැති තිස් වසරක යුද්ධය 2009 වසරේ මැයි මසදී අවසන් කිරීම හේතුවෙන් වියරු වැටී සිටින කොටි ඩයස්පෝරාව ඇතුළු අධිරාජ්‍යයවාදී බලවේග රට බෙදුම්වවාදී ත්‍රස්ථවාදීන්ගෙන් බේරාගත් අභිත රණවිරුවන් මෙම මස 22 දා සිට ජිනිවා හි පවත්වන ජාත්‍යන්තර මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම් සභා සැසිවාරයේදි රණවිරුවන් මනුෂ්‍ය ඝාතනය කලා යැයි අභුත චෝදනා නගමින් පෝරකයට නැංවීමට දරණ උත්සාහයට එරෙහිව ප්‍රංශයේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝනායක අතිපූජ්‍ය ගරැ පරවාහැර චන්දරතන නාහිමිපාණන්ගේ අනුශාසකත්වයෙන් ප්‍රංශයේ වාසය කරන ජාතිමාමක සහ දේශ හිතෛෂී ශ්‍රිලාංකිකයින් විශාල පිරිසකගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් ඊයේ දින (පෙබරවාරි 17දා) සවස 2 සිට 4 දක්වා ප්‍රංශයේ විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය ඉදිරිපිට දැවැන්ත උද්ඝෝෂණයක් පවත්වන ලදි.

Japanese Ambassador Sugiyama Akira on Tuesday presented anti-terrorism surveillance and investigation vehicles to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat Office.

Protesters in Myanmar on Monday denounced the military government’s decision to extend ousted leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s detention until Wednesday.

India has sought to address shared security challenges with Sri Lanka.

JOHANNESBURG - Africa’s viral epicenter, South Africa, confirmed Tuesday that it is jettisoning plans to use the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and will switch to a different one. That announcement came a day after the vaccine, which is the leading choice for the developing world, was cleared for emergency use authorization from the World Health Organization.

The Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Bagley had wide ranging discussions with Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Friday evening, Daily Mirror learns.

A planned address to Parliament by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been scrapped over COVID- 19 concerns, parliament sources said.

Rohingya refugees are fleeing India or going underground amid fears that the government will arrest them for unauthorized entry into the country.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his Government has always taken care of the welfare and aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamils and the issue of Tamil rights has consistently been taken up with Sri Lankan leaders.