Sri Lanka High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa Anuruddha Kumara Mallimaratchi presented Letters Of Credence to the President of the Republic of Zambia Edgar Chagwa Lungu at a ceremony held on 3 May at the State House in Lusaka.
The United States of America stands with Sri Lanka against terrorism and supports the island nation’s counter-terrorism efforts following the horrific Easter Sunday terrorist attacks of April 21.
The U.S Department of State has announced the addition of ten more countries including Sri Lanka to the U.S Visa Waiver Program (VWP), foreign news agencies reported.
Tokyo: The governments of Japan, India and Sri Lanka have agreed to jointly develop the Port of Colombo, Nikkei has learned, as the Indian Ocean becomes more integral to global trade.
Based on the security agreements signed between Sri Lanka and China during President Maithripala Sirisena’s recent tour to China, the Chinese Government has pledged to supply several machines to defuse bombs, according to Presidential Secretariat sources.
The United States reiterated its commitment to a sovereign Sri Lanka able to protect its security and prosperity.
Vistara, a joint venture between Tata India and Singapore Airlines has slowed down the implementation of its ambitious plan to start flights to Colombo after series of suicide bomb blasts rocked the island nation, aviation authority officials said.
High Commissioner of India Taranjit Singh Sandhu paid respects at Sri Dalada Maligawa and received the blessings of the Most Venerable Thibbatuwawe Sri Sumangala Mahanayake Thero of Malwatte Chapter and Most Venerable Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana Mahanayake Thero of Asgiriya Chapter in Kandy on 17 May 2019.
The Povlsen family has written an open letter thanking the people of Scotland for the words of comfort that “fortified” them after the devastating loss of three of their four children in the Sri Lanka terror attacks.
Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife Anne, who are Scotland’s largest landowners, said the many messag
British Labour leader, and Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn MP said that a future Labour Government would use diplomatic pressure and action on trade and arms sales to push for human rights and would suspend aw aid to the security forces due to their involvement in the oppression of Tamils and anti-Muslim attacks.
The meticulous planning and coordination with which the bomb blasts were carried out suggests a global terror link to the Sri Lankan blasts on Easter Sunday,” said Col. R. Hariharan of ex-Military Intelligence who was part of the IPKF operations in the island nation.
The Sri Lanka High Commission in London hosted a reception in honour of the visiting Sri Lanka Cricket team for the ICC World Cup 2019 on Thursday at the Sri Lanka High Commission in London, in the presence of UK dignitaries, the diplomatic corps and cricketing professionals among the British Sri Lankan community. A warm welcome was extended to the team by the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in the United Kingdom Manisha Gunasekera.
Controversy surrounds Power and Energy Minister Ravi Karunanayake’s move to award another 400MWs of emergency power to a Turkish company, Daily Mirror learns.
18 May 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. On this day, Switzerland will remember the many victims of this armed conflict. At the same time, the FDFA is deeply concerned about the recent flare-up in tensions and calls on the Sri Lankan government to do everything in its power to safeguard and strengthen peace and stability in the country.
"The massacres in Sri Lanka and New Zealand demand that we become more united, deepen dialogue and fight against extremism," says the UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay said.
චීනයේ Huawei සමාගම සමග තිබෙන වෙළද ගිවිසුම අත්හිටුවීමට අමෙරිකාවේ ගුගල් සමාගම තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා. ඒ සමග ගුගල් සමාගම විසින් ලබාදී තිබු ඇන්ඩ්රෝයිඩ් Play Store පද්ධතිය හරහා Huawei දුරකථන වෙත ලබාදෙනු ලබන සේවා සිමා කිරීමට ලක්වනු ඇති බවයි විදෙස් මාධ්ය වාර්තා කරන්නේ.
US State Secretary Michael Pompeo who met with Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana, has reiterated strong US support for Sri Lanka in its fight against terrorism, a statement said.
In a joint statement, the delegation of the European Union has expressed concern over the recent incidents of communal violence that have occurred following the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks.
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