International Affairs

ලබන මාර්තු මාසයේදී පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැර මහ මැතිවරණයක් කැඳවන නිසා මේ වසරේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ජිනීවා සමුළුවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධ යෝජනා කල් දමන ලෙස එ.ජා. මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටීමට රජය සැලසුම් කරමින් සිටී.

India has announced a USD 100 million credit line to develop solar projects in Sri Lanka. Both India and Sri Lanka have also been jointly funding research programmes in Science & Technology for close to a decade and are partners in South Asia satellite which aids socio-economic development and welfare needs of the region through tele-education, tele-medicine, disaster management support etc.

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Motegi Toshimitsu is scheduled to visit Sri Lanka from 12-14 December with a view to further strengthening the bilateral relationship between Japan and Sri Lanka with the new Government of Sri Lanka.

Russian experts who were in Sri Lanka have briefed the military on Air Defence Operations and Combat Engineer Operations conducted by the Russian Army during the fight against ISIS in Syria.

ඊයේ (12) පැවති බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය මහ මැතිවරණයෙන් අගමැති බොරිස් ජොන්සන්ගේ කන්සවේටිව් පක්ෂයට විශිෂ්ට ජයග්‍රහණයක් අත් වේ.

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi is to visit Sri Lanka and Spain from December 14-17, 2019, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said today.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මානව හිමිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් සහ සිවිල් සමාජය වෙනුවෙන් නව ව්‍යාපෘති 07 ක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට යුරෝපා සංගමය තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා. ඒ සඳහා යුරෝපා සංගමය රුපියල් කෝටි 82 කට ආසන්න මුදලක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදීමට නියමිත බවයි වාර්තා වන්නේ.

UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, Hanaa Singer, met with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday and has discussed peace and reconciliation including the challenges and the way forward.

Envoys belonging to the Middle East Ambassadors’ Forum called on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretary yesterday. Congratulating President Rajapaksa on his recent victory, they assured their continued support and co-operation to the new government in the economic and cultural spheres.

Sri Lanka and Japan reaffirm their commitment to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in vital sectors of economic development and identify key areas of such cooperation. Information and communication technology (ICT), harbour infrastructure – including the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT), expressways, agriculture, digitalisation of television transmission, disaster prevention, and security cooperation are some of the areas identified.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena requested SAARC member countries to take concrete action to improve intra-trade in the region without compromising security concerns.

Sri Lanka’s Confederation of Micro, Small and Medium Industries (COSMI) and two trade associations of The Chinese province of Sichuan and its reputed Mianyang city have signed Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) to improve bilateral ties on trade and investment in Colombo on Monday 9.

UN climate talks in Madrid enter their final scheduled day with divisions emerging between major emitting countries and small island states.

A high level Asia Pacific Cooperative executive committee session opened in Colombo on 12 December-with significant emphasis on engagement of youth for cooperatives.

Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte says a Resident Mission will be opened in Colombo in 2020.

Sri Lanka is mulling to establish closer ties with Korea to promote technology transfers and sharing of technical know how, including internship opportunities as measures to foster cooperation on innovation between the two countries.

LONDON — As Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the International Court of Justice in The Hague this week, many former supporters watched in dismay as the Nobel peace laureate denied accusations that Myanmar's military conducted atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim population.

The Meeting of States Parties (MSP) to the Convention on Biological Weapons, which concluded its four day session in Geneva has unanimously endorsed Sri Lanka as the Chair of the Meeting of States Parties to be held in 2020.