International Affairs
The Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to the Republic of Austria Saroja Sirisena assumed duties at the Mission on 01 July 2019.
Sri Lanka Tourism has stepped up its efforts to woo more Chinese tourists by bringing down the largest contingent of travel agents from the Asian giant.
දකුණු අප්‍රිකානු ජනාධිපති ජපානයේ පැවති ජී- 20 සමුළුවට සහභාගීවීමෙන් පසු යළි සිය රට බලා යන අතරතුර, මද විවේකයක් ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා කටුනායක ගුවන් තොටුපළ වෙත පැමිණ තිබෙනවා.
In the light of the stabilisation of the security situation in Sri Lanka as a result of the large-scale and intensive investigations and security re-enforcement by the concerned authorities, the Government of Japan has relaxed the travel advisory nation-wide from level-2 (refrain from non-essential travel) to level-1 (exercise sufficient caution) on 25 June.
Many Sri Lankan corporates will perish in the next five to 10 years if they do not take the impact of climate change seriously and adopt proactive measures with substantial investments in building eco-friendly businesses, a senior official of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group said on the sidelines of the launch of the Road Map for Sustainable Finance for Sri Lanka by the Central Bank (CB) last week.
German Ambassador Joern Rohde said Sri Lanka was unfortunately again in the headlines for the wrong reasons.
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ ඇමරිකානු හමුදා කඳවුරක් ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට කිසිදු සැලැස්මක් හෝ අවශ්‍යතාවයක් නොමැති බව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිනී ඇලෙයිනා බී. ටෙප්ලිට්ස් මහත්මිය අවධාරණය කරයි.
මරණ අඩුවීම ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයා ගත් තීරණය – ක්‍රියාත්මක නොවන තත්ත්වයක් උදාවී ඇතැයි වාර්තා වේ.
රුසියාවෙන් මිලට ගැනීමෙන් වළකින ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් භාණ්‌ඩ ලැයිස්‌තුවක්‌ ඇමරිකානු රජය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදී ඇත.
France is deeply concerned over the announcement of Sri Lankan authorities’ intention to execute persons sentenced to death and urges them to maintain the moratorium on death penalty, a statement from the French embassy said.
The top United Nations official in Sri Lanka, Hanaa Singer, is expressing concern about the growing number of “incidents of hate speech being used in Sri Lanka against ethnic and religious minorities.”
විදේශගත ප්‍රබුද්ධ ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන් එකතුවක් ලෙස ඩුබායිහි වෙසෙන ශ්‍රී ලාංකික වෘත්තිකයන් පිරිසක් මුල්වී ගොඩනඟන ලද ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලාංකික සංසදය පසුගිය වසර තුනක කාලය තුළ ජාත්‍යන්තරය තුළ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වෙනුවෙන් ඉතා ප්‍රබල වැඩ කොටසක් ඉටු කරන ලදී.
Thailand last week reinforced its unwavering support for Sri Lanka and a quicker revival of tourism from setbackscaused by theEaster Sunday terror attacks.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said application of the death penalty may impede international cooperation to fight drug trafficking.
Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama had attended the World Economic Forum’s Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders (IGWEL) program, his Ministry said in a statement yesterday.
Sri Lanka’s Middle East Partners are fully committed to support the island nation but the government should be cautious in handling sensitive issues without deviating from the country’s impartial foreign policy, several experts on foreign relations suggested.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a letter to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed his gratitude for the hospitality accorded to him and the delegation during the recent visit to Sri Lanka.
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