International Affairs

A Hongkong Buddhist delegation paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Temple Trees yesterday (15). The delegation is currently on a visit to Sri Lanka for the ordination ceremony of a child from China to the monk-hood which will be held on Poson Full Moon Poya today.

A top US government official said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka in the analysis of evidence and phone details in connection with the serial bombings on Easter Sunday.

NEW DELHI - Indian police raided seven locations in the southern city of Coimbatore on Wednesday in pursuit of a suspected Islamic State cell with links to the suicide bombers who killed over 250 people in Sri Lanka in April, officials said.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has temporarily removed the image of the parent from its 70 year old ‘parent and child’ logo.

පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නියෝජනයක කරන මුස්ලිම් ජාතික මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් ඊයේ (13) පස්වරුවේ විදෙස් තානාපතිවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු හමුවීමට නියමිතව සිටියද ඒ හමුව අවලංගු කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වෙයි.

The Delegation of the European Union (EU) today said that it is deeply concerned by political and religious pressure being directed at Sri Lanka’s Muslim community which is undermining peace and reconciliation in the country.

President Maithripala Sirisena is scheduled to address the 5th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) today in Dushnabe, Tajikistan.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who is on a three day working visit to Singapore called on Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Law Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam yesterday. Singapore’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Chandra Das was also present.

China says it is ready to work with all countries, including Sri Lanka, to firmly oppose trade bullying, safeguard and promote the building of an open world economy and economic globalization, inject more certainty into an uncertain world, and build a community of shared future and common interests through win-win cooperation.

Maldivian Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed, who is also the former Maldivian President, said his country requested the world to visit Sri Lanka.

Japan is ready to provide full support to Sri Lanka to face global terrorism, Japan's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ms. Toshiko Abe said today.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to send a special envoy to Sri Lanka for talks on several key issues.

A key global conference discussing sustainability of trade in wildlife scheduled in Colombo has been moved to Geneva, Switzerland following the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka.

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ආරාධනාවකට අනුව මාලදිවයින් ජනාධිපති ඊබ්‍රහිම් මොහොමඩ් සෝලි මහතා ඇතුළු මුළු කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සංචාරයක නිරත වීමට නියමිතය.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is arrive in Sri Lanka later this month on a brief visit.

The Australian Government yesterday reviewed its travel advisory for Sri Lanka and lowered it to ‘exercise a high degree of caution.’

Tangible measures to collaborate with UN mechanisms in keeping with international norms and practices took centre stage at discussions during the recent visit by UN Assistant Secretary General (ASG) and Executive Director of the Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) Michèle Coninsx from June 7-8.

NDTV: Air India will resume its additional flight on Delhi-Colombo route from 15 July, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday. The national carrier had stopped operating the additional flight after the 21 April Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka that targeted churches and luxury hotels, killing total 258 people and injuring 500 others.