International Affairs

ජිනීවා යෝජනාවට සහාය නොදක්වන බව ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා රජය මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්වරිය වෙත දැනුම් දුන්නත් එම යෝජනාව දිගටම ගෙනයන බව බි‍්‍රතාන්‍ය තානාපතිනි රීටා ෆ්‍රෙන්ච් ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුව අමතමින් ප‍්‍රකාශ කර ඇත.

GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality.

The United Nations in New York belatedly commemorated the International Day of Vesak virtually on 2nd July 2020, the Foreign Ministry said today.

Vatican City, AFP: Pope Francis on Sunday threw his support behind a UN Security Council resolution calling for a halt to conflicts to facilitate the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump kicked off a “Salute to America” Saturday night on the grounds of the White House with a speech that took on the “angry mob” as he revisited the language and themes of his address a night earlier at Mount Rushmore.

කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරසය හේතුවෙන් ශ්‍රමිකයන් විදේශ රැකියා සඳහා යොමු වන්නේ කෙසේද යන්න පිළිබඳව, ලෝක කම්කරු සංවිධානයේ නියෝජිතයන් සමඟ නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, රැකීරක්ෂා හා කම්කරු සබඳතා
අමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා වීඩියෝ තාක්ෂණය ඔස්සේ සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වන ලදී.

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have formally signed a grant agreement that will see KOICA provide a $ 600,000 (Rs. 111.4 million) grant, funding and supporting the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) critical response to COVID-19 in the education sector.

The United Kingdom announced yesterday (Friday) that tourists from over 50 countries and territories will be able to visit the UK from Friday, July 10, without facing a mandatory 14-day quarantine period upon arrival.

The United Kingdom said extraordinary measures to tackle the COVID19 pandemic should not be used by Sri Lanka to roll back human rights.

Reuters: The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Saturday, with the total rising by 212,326 in 24 hours.

Ambassador Majintha Jayesinghe presented Letters of Credence to Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen, Federal President of the Republic of Austria, at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna accrediting as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sri Lanka to Austria on 30 June.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has urged the Sri Lanka Government to follow “due process” if it intended to shift from Japanese funding for the Colombo light rail transit system (LRT) to a public-private partnership.

A report in The New York Times says a group of 239 scientists from 32 countries will publish an open letter to the World Health Organization in a scientific journal this week. The scientists want WHO to revise its recommendations about how to avoid coronavirus infection.

Morris Copeland, of the Strategic Urban Response to Guideline Education group, center, passes out kits to be distributed to residents in COVID-19 hot spots, July 1, 2020, in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami.

Responding to views expressed by the UNHRC’s Core Group on Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Government today urged all parties to appreciate the country's approach of focusing on deliverable measures of reconciliation and to recognise the ground realities.

A day after Britain failed to include Sri Lanka in a list of countries from where visitors will not be required to undergo a mandatory 14 day quarantine, the British Foreign Office lifted a global travel advise on a number of countries except Sri Lanka and other countries seen as unsafe because of the coronavirus.

ක්‍රිකට් ලෝක කුසලාන 2011 අවසන් මහා තරඟය පාවා දුන් බවට කිසිදු සැකයක් නොමැති බව ICC දූෂණ විරෝධී ඒකකයේ සාමාන්‍යාධිකාරී ඇලෙක්ස් මාෂල් ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටිනවා.

පාස්කු ප්‍රහාර සම්බන්ධයෙන් සැකපිට අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන සිටින නීතිඥ හිජාස් හිස්බුල්ලා රඳවා තබාගැනීම සහ විශේෂ බළකායේ සැරයන් සුනිල් රත්නායකට ‘ජනාධිපති සමාව’ ලබාදීම ඇතුළු කරුණු ගණනාවක් පදනම් කරගනිමින් එක්සත් රාජධානිය ඇතුළු රටවල් පහක කණ්ඩායමක් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට චෝදනා එල්ල කර ඇත.