International Affairs

UK Visas and Immigration is beginning a phased resumption of services at select Visa Application Centres in 11 cities in India from 06 July 2020, namely Ahmedabad, Bengaluru (Global Tech Park only), Chandigarh, Chennai (subject to local lockdown regulations), Jalandhar, Kochi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai (Mahalaxmi only), New Delhi (Shivaji Metro Stadium only), and Pune.

ජිනීවාහි එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ 44 වැනි සැසියේදී සිය ආරම්භක දේශනය සිදු කරමින් එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් මහ කොමසාරිස් මිෂෙල් බැචලෙට් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පිළිබඳ කනස්සල්ල පළ කර ඇත.

The United States of America (US) yesterday reaffirmed its partnership with the people of Sri Lanka and commitment to supporting the country’s development and sovereignty.

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ලබාදී ඇති ණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉන්දියාව මේ දිනවල දැඩි අවධානයක් යොමුකරමින් ඇතැයි ඉන්දීය මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කරනවා.

Canada says its relationship with Sri Lanka has been further strengthened over the past few months.

The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Sri Lanka and the EU Member States Embassies in Colombo yesterday denied that Sri Lanka had been blacklisted and will be included in future visa lists as the region gradually reopens.

The UN Core Group on Sri Lanka yesterday called on Sri Lanka to ensure that the country’s democratic space remains open and accountable, and called for detentions and arrests to follow due process and be compliant with international norms and universal rights.

Pakistan International Airlines will not be allowed to fly into most of Europe for the next six months, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Tuesday, following revelations that nearly a third of Pakistani pilots had cheated on their pilot exams.

The EU has named 14 countries whose citizens are deemed "safe" to be let in from 1 July, despite the pandemic - but the US, Brazil and China are excluded.

Chiyo Kanda has been appointed as the new World Bank’s new Country Manager for Sri Lanka.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, today noted concerns on Sri Lanka in her opening speech at the 44th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The 32nd Joint Meeting of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Commission for East Asia and Pacific (CAP) and the UNWTO Commission for South Asia (CSA) which is UNWTO’s principal annual event in the Asia and the Pacific Region was scheduled to be hosted by Sri Lanka Tourism in Colombo from 29th June to 01st July 2020.

The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate worldwide and countries must use a comprehensive approach to bring it under control.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena briefed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Review Report during talks yesterday, the Foreign Ministry said today.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව කොරෝනා ව්‍යසනයෙන් ජයගත් බව රජය ප්‍රකාශ කළ ද යුරෝපා සංගමය වෙත ඇතුළු වීමට අවසර ලබාදීමට නියමිත රටවල් අතරට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව නම් නොකිරීමට එම සංගමය කටයුතු කර ඇතැයි වාර්තා වේ.

උතුරේ දේශපාලන පක්‍ෂයක් මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය ජාවාරමේ යෙදෙන බව ඇමෙරිකානු රාජ්‍ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව අනාවරණය කර ඇත.

ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය මුල්වරට කරුණා සිදුකළ බව කියන යුද අපරාධ ගැන පරීක්‍ෂණ ආරම්භ කර ඇත.

Chinese nationals in Sri Lanka have been urged to strictly follow health guidelines issued by the Sri Lankan authorities.