International Affairs

Cambodia has joined hands with Sri Lanka in the economic, trade and social fields as well as in all matters concerning the revival of Buddhism, King of Cambodia Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boronmeath Norodom Sihamoni said.

Chinese Ambassador Cheng Xueyuan last week hosted a grand reception for Members of the Sri Lanka Parliament at Waters Edge, to celebrate the successful conclusion of their series of visits to China. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, dozens of Ministers, MPs, as well as Parliament staffs and journalists, attended the event and expressed their appreciation to the Chinese side for the familiarisation-visits arrangement.

Sri Lanka is hosting the first meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Maritime Safety and Security Working Group (MSSWG), in Colombo on August 8 and 9. This meeting will finalise the work plan for two years, advancing the IORA Action Plan (2017-21) with the Member States towards developing a regional agenda.

Sri Lanka’s youth entrepreneurship is being promoted providing with the necessary technical know how under UNDP sponsored programme.

The government continues its initiative of assisting Sri Lankan companies to enter into massive Indian market

The Sri Lankan Government is negotiating with the UAE for the transfer of expat prisoners to the island nation, a top envoy told Khaleej Times in an exclusive interview.

United States Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells will visit Sri Lanka during her 11-day visit to the Indian subcontinent.

රුසියානු ශ්‍රී ලංකා ද්විපාර්ශවික සබඳතා තහවුරු කිරීමේ අරමුණෙන්, රුසියානු රජයේ තානාපති Yury Materiy මහතා, විදුලිබල, බලශක්ති සහ ව්‍යාපාර සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍ය රවී කරුණානායක මහතා සමග සුහද හමුවකට සහභාගී විය.

SriLankan Airlines yesterday welcomed the launch of the ‘free visa on arrival facility’ that the government is providing to citizens of 48 countries in Australasia, Europe and North America from August 1, for a period of six months as part of a concerted effort to boost tourism into the Indian Ocean island nation.

කාම්බෝජ රජයේ විශේෂ ආරාධනය පරිදි එරට රාජ්‍ය සංචාරයක නිරත වන ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සමඟ ශ්‍රී ලංකා සහ කාම්බෝජියානු ව්‍යාපාරිකයන්ගේ හමුවක් ඊයේ (07) Phnom Penh නගරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි.

ඉන්දියාවේ ලඩක් ප්‍රදේශය වෙනමම ප්‍රාන්තයක් වශයෙන් නම් කිරීමට ඉන්දීය රජය විසින් ගත් පියවර සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ට්විටර් පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත් කර ඇත.

The European Union’s support to Sri Lanka in meeting the challenge of violent extremism was promised yesterday when Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana held talks with the EU’s High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Federica Mogherini, on the side lines of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Bangkok.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday condoled the demise of former Indian External Affairs Minister Smt Sushma Swaraj, saying that her efforts to achieve regional policy objectives made a last impression among the Lankan public.

President Maithripala Sirisena will pay a three-day visit to Cambodia from today 7 Aug 2019.

Commander of the Sri Lanka Army Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake, accompanied by the official delegation including Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, met with Commander of the Land Forces of Russia General of the Army Oleg Salyukov yesterday. The discussions took place on the margins of the International Army Games - the main military sports event of the year, annually organised by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

The Sri Lanka Business Council in Japan (SLBCJ) under the patronage of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Tokyo, organised the 15th edition of Sri Lanka Festival in August in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo.

ස්කොට්ලන්තයේ රෝහල්වලින් ඉවත දමන සිරුරු කොටස් ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවට යැවීම ගැන පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වන ලෙස ලේබර් පක්ෂ මන්ති‍්‍රනී මොනිකා ලෙනන් සෞඛ්‍ය ලේකම්වරිය වූ ජින් පි‍්‍රමන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇත.

To help Sri Lankan companies eyeing the daunting Indian market, the International Trade and Development Strategies Ministry yesterday launched a new report to assist breaking into India, with Minister Malik Samarawickrama undertaking a visit to India this week to help local businesses find success across the Palk Strait.