International Affairs

Ambassador of Sri Lanka to China Dr. Palitha T. B. Kohona has referred to a letter written by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, seeking access to Chinese vaccines when Dr Kohona met with Director-General of the Department of Protocol Hong Lei at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China today.

එළැඹෙන මාර්තු මාසයේ පැවැත්වෙන එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් සැසිවාරය සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එරෙහි​ පොදු වාර්තාවක් සකස් කිරීමට දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය ප්‍රමුඛ උතුරේ පක්ෂ අටක් ඒකමතිකව තීරණය කර ඇත.

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban warned Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s resolve to remain in office until the completion of his tenure was detrimental to peace talks aimed at finding a negotiated end to four decades of war in Afghanistan.

Late-stage trials in Brazil show the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinovac to be 50.38% effective, nearly 30 percentage points below the initial results released last week.

සීෂෙල්ස් හි වැසියන් සඳහා වෛද්‍ය සංචාරක කටයුතු නැවත ආරම්භ කරන බවට විදේශ අමාත්‍ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා සීෂෙල්ස් හි ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් කොන්‍රාඩ් වින්සන්ට් මෙඩෙරික් මහතාට සහතික විය

An official with Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency has confirmed that debris from a Sriwijaya Air passenger plane carrying 62 people was found after contact was lost shortly after takeoff from Jakarta.

For Europe’s leaders Biden’s return to the White House, which he left four years ago as Barack Obama’s vice president, along with familiar faces in key foreign and security jobs, is reassuring.

The Sri Lanka Embassy in Washington DC which remained closed from 4-10 January 2021, due to five staff members including the Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha contracting COVID 19, will resume normal functions on Monday (11), the embassy announced.

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar has assured Sri Lankan business leaders that India would like to expand its engagement with the Sri Lankan economy and referred to certain promising areas such as pharmaceuticals, IT, vocational training, skill development, etc. in this regard.

කොවිඩ් වයිරසයට එරෙහි එන්නතක් චීනය මගින් මෙරටට ලබා ගැනීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය සම්බන්ධ සාකච්ඡා ආරම්භ වී තිබේ. මේ සඳහා වූ විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක් චීනයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති ආචාර්ය පාලිත කොහොන සහ චීනයේ වාණිජ අමාත්‍යාංශයේ සාමාජිකයන් අතර පවත්වා ඇත.

Pope Francis says the decision to get the COVID vaccine is a matter of ethics.

COLOMBO - A daughter of a slain Sri Lankan journalist filed a complaint Friday with the United Nations Human Rights Committee over alleged government involvement in her father's death 12 years ago.

China had lent US$ 679.4mn in Jan.-Aug. period out of total bilateral foreign loans of US$ 914.4mn

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Indonesian aviation authorities said Sunday they had located the two black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Friday he will not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, breaking a tradition that has for centuries been a hallmark of the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.

The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Jordan with the active facilitation of the Sri Lanka Export Development Board held a virtual Meeting on 6 January 2021, to showcase Sri Lanka’s highly specialized boat manufacturing capabilities to a Jordanian Boat importing company in Aqaba port city which currently sources and imports boats for the Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabian markets..

The High Commission of India in Colombo and relevant authorities of the Government of Sri Lanka held a series of meetings during the last two weeks to review the status of select ongoing development cooperation projects.

සිය රට තුල කෝවිඩ් එන්නත ලබාදීමේ වැඩපිලිවෙළ ජනවාරි 13 වනදා සිට ආරම්භ කිරීමට කටයුතු යොදා ඇතැයි එරට සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය පවසයි.