International Affairs

The European Union (EU) has decided to provide a grant of 3.5 million euros (Rs. 728 million) to boost Sri Lanka’s tourism industry hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and calls on Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) to provide relevant proposals soon.

එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. සංවිධානය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කෙරෙන අයුරින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පිළිබඳව වැරදි ප්‍රතිරූපයක් නිර්මාණය කෙරෙන තොරතුරු වාර්තා කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව එක්සත් රාජධානියේ ‘ද ගාර්ඩියන්’ වෙබ් අඩවියට දැඩි විරෝධය පළකර ඇත. එම විරෝධය හමුවේ ‘ද ගාර්ඩියන්’ වෙබ් අඩවිය අදාළ වාර්තාව ඉවත් කර ගැනීමට කටයුතු කර තිබේ.

නව කොරෝනා වෛරසය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් පහව නොගොස්, HIV වැනි නිශ්චිත පුද්ගලයින් කොට්ඨාසයක පැතිරෙන වෛරසයක් ලෙස හෝ පැවතිය හැකි බවට ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය අනතුරු අඟවා සිටිනවා.

The G-20 debt suspension initiative is unlikely to ease the significant credit challenges that the coronavirus pandemic has amplified in some frontier market sovereigns, particularly in Africa and South Asia including Sri Lanka, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report this week.

challenges faced as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.

Chinese President Xi Jinping suggested Wednesday that China and Sri Lanka, while ensuring COVID-19 prevention and control, gradually resume practical cooperation in various fields, advance major cooperation projects in an orderly manner and promote the high-quality construction of the Belt and Road, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The Indian High Commission in Colombo yesterday said that a special Air India flight has been scheduled on 29 May to repatriate the stranded Indian nationals in Sri Lanka.

Geneva: Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as practised in some countries, does not eliminate the new coronavirus and even poses a health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Saturday.

NEW YORK - The United Nations warned Wednesday that the global financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could see economic output plummet by $8.5 trillion over the next two years and push more than 34 million people into extreme poverty.

The Covid-19 vaccine development and deployment in China, when available, will be made a global public good, Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday (18) at the opening of the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly.

කොරෝනා වෛරසය පැතිරයාම පාලනය කිරීමට ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාව ගෙන යන වැඩපිළිවෙලට සහය ලබා දීම සඳහා චීන මහජන සමූහාණ්ඩුව විසින් ලබාදුන් සිව්වන ආධාර තොගය රැගත් ගුවන් යානය ඊයේ රාති‍්‍රයේ කටුනායක ගුවන් තොටුපළ වෙත ළඟා වුණා.

A senior official with the International Monetary Fund says the world economic outlook may be even worse than the grim forecast announced by the organization last month.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issuing a statement on the anniversary of the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, has called for Sri Lanka to pursue a meaningful accountability process

The United Nations, EU and Germany have kicked off a joint counter-terrorism initiative in Sri Lanka.

මුදල් විශුද්ධිකරණය හා ත්‍රස්තවාදයට අරමුදල් සැපයීම මැඬපැවැත්වීමේ උපාය මාර්ගික දුර්වලතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉහළ අවදානම් ඇති තෙවැනි පාර්ශ්වයේ රටවල් ලැයිස්තුවෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉවත් කිරීමට යුරෝපා කොමිසම තීරණය කර ඇත.

GENEVA - World leaders attending the first-ever virtual World Health Assembly have called on nations to unite to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first cases of the deadly disease were declared in China in December, the WHO has reported more than 4.7 million infections around the world, including more than 315,000 deaths.

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump is saying he is confident there will be a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year, and mass inoculations of the public will occur quickly.

The US embassy in Colombo yesterday reaffirmed that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa renounced his US citizenship in April 2019.