During an official visit to the state of Chhattisgarh, High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam called on the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Dr Raman Singh, at Mahanandi Bhawan, the new Secretariat building of the new capital, Naya Raipur, on 4th January 2013. The High Commissioner met the Minister of Tourism & Culture Brij Mohan Agrawal and other senior officials as well.
Local and foreign elements that are arraigned against Sri Lanka have not changed their stance but their methodologies have been refined. In order to defeat their strategies, the Ministry of External Affairs has been assigned the task of proactively engaging with the international community. In order to achieve success everybody should act with a collective sense of responsibility, said External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris at a ceremony attended by the staff of the Ministry of External Affairs to launch the New Year Programme.
The Sri Lanka Embassy together with the Sri Lanka Association in Cairo organized a Buddhist Religious Ceremony at the Embassy premises from 27th - 28th December 2012 to invoke blessings to President, Mahinda Rajapaksa and all Sri Lankans for the New Year.
The religious ceremony was conducted by Venerable Professor Induragare Dhammaratana Thero, Senior Lecturer of the University of Kelaniya. At the request of the Embassy, the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment sponsored the travel arrangement of Venerable Thero.
All night “Pirith Chanting” Ceremony to bless Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka, the people of Sri Lanka and Australia, the newly constructed Chancery building of the Sri Lanka High Commission in ...
