International Affairs

The Chief of the International Organisation for Migration (IMO) for Sri Lanka and Maldives Sarat Dash called on the Northern Province Governor Dr. Suren Raghavan yesterday at the Governor’s Secretariat.

The Foreign Ministers of Sri Lanka and India held talks in Thailand on the sidelines of an ongoing summit.

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem told Parliament today that the Muslims in Sri Lanka felt the Indo-Lanka accord betrayed the Muslim community.

High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to South Africa accredited to the Kingdom of Eswatini, Kumar Mallimaratchi presented Letters of Credence to King Mswati 111 at a ceremony held on 25 July at the Lozitha Royal Palace in Mbabane.

Sri Lanka is taking steps to enhance naval cooperation with Russia, the Foreign Ministry said tdoay.

සංචාරක කර්මාන්තය ප‍්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමේ අරමුණින් රටවල් 48 ක් සඳහා ගාස්තු රහිතව වීසා ලබා දීම අද (01) සිට කි‍්‍රයාත්මක වනවා. මාස 06 ක කාලසීමාවක් මෙම පහසුකම හිමිවන බවයි සංචාරක සංවර්ධන අමාත්‍යංශය පැවසුවේ.

Maldives Ambassador in Sri Lanka Omer Abdul Razzak met Minister of City Planning, Water Supply and Higher Education Rauff Hakeem yesterday at the Ministry of Higher Education and discussed matters, including establishing offshore campuses of Sri Lankan universities in the Maldives and providing expert assistance in matters regarding water supply and sewerage management.

Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to the European Union Grace Asirwatham met Gunnar Wiegand, Managing Director for the Asia Pacific Region of the European External Action Service (EEAS) following her assumption of duties in Brussels.

USA is an important trading partner for Sri Lanka with exports to America reaching USD 3.08 billion and USD 645.39 million imports coming into the country in 2018 from the US, Asanka Rathnayake President, Sri Lanka USA Business Council told its third AGM on Tuesday.

The first phase of the Slave Island Redevelopment Project, Metro Homes was inaugurated on Thursday 01 August and handed over to the beneficiaries by the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

One- hundred and fifty- three Foreign Funded Projects remained in the Implementation Stage by the end of the year 2017 and the Annual Financial Statements of 123 Foreign Funded Projects out of them had been furnished to government audit.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremeshinge shakes hands with Muslim World League Secretary General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa (left) while Western Province Governor AJM Muzammil looks on

Sri Lankan Airlines is the largest foreign carrier to India. 80 % of business of Colombo Port comes from India-related transshipment cargo.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආරක්ෂක අංශ වෙත ආරක්ෂක උපකරණ ලබාදීම සහ පුහුණුව ලබාදීම අඛණ්ඩව සිදු කරන බව චීන බළධාරීන් පවසනවා. ඒ සඳහා දේශපාලන හෝ වෙනත් කිසිදු කොන්දේසියක් ඉදිරිපත් නොකරණ බවයි එම බළධාරීන් අවධාරණය කරන්නේ.

The United States today insisted it will not control any land in Sri Lanka under the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) deal with Sri Lanka.

Singapore has relaxed its Travel Advisory on Sri Lanka from defer all non-essential travels to exercise caution, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said today.

ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා මේ දක්වා සහභාගි වූ විදෙස් සංචාර පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු කිසිවක් ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලයේ නොමැති බව ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලය ප්‍රකාශ කර ඇත.

පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරය හම්බන්තොට චීන වරාය ගිවිසුමේ ප්‍රතිඵලයක් බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ ආචාර්ය විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි.