On May 7, 2019 Ambassador of Sri Lanka H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka paid a visit to Anatoliy Adamishin, the prominent Russian diplomat and politician, Ph.D. in History, who served as First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Russian Minister for Cooperation with the CIS Countries, Chair of the USSR Committee for UNESCO and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union/Russian Federation to Italy and United Kingdom. As Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (1986-1990) Anatoliy Adamishin took part in the settlement granting independence to Namibia, thereby opening the door for the release of Mandela and the freedom of South Africa.
Anatoliy Adamishin is the Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization ‘Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation’, member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and member of the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy.
Ambassador Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka were luncheon guests of H.E. Anatoliy Adamishin and his spouse Svetlana Adamishina, and were received at the Adamishins’ dacha, located in a villa community in the pine forest outside of Moscow.
Ambassador Jayatilleka and Anatoliy Adamishin had the in-depth discussion on the fate of global socialism, the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and Russia, the history of international affairs, Russia-USA-China relations, the contemporary global political situation and the shift of great power towards East.
Being the author of books and publications on human rights, foreign policy, transnational terrorism and the Cold War, Anatoliy Adamishin presented Ambassador Jayatilleka one of his books titled ‘Over the years. Sketches on foreign policy’.
