Media Briefings

Joint Press Briefing by  Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena, Foreign Minister and Hon. Michael Pompeo, US Secretary of State on 28 October 2020. Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=olue3-v6LEk     ...

Joint Media briefing  by Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardena and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, at the Ministry of Foreign Relations on 15 January 2020 Video : https://m.youtube.com/wa ...

Media briefing by Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on the alleged incident relating to a staff member of the Swiss Embassy in Colombo on 4 December 2019. Video : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2MHQ-cRr74Y ...

Question and Response in English. (Sinhala and Tamil Translations are also below) Question: Will Sri Lanka recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and shift its embassy there.  Response: Sri Lanka has always sto ...

Media Advisory Mr. Prasad Kariyawasam, Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and visiting US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon, will be holding a Joint Press Conference on Mon ...

MEDIA ADVISORY: The Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Harsha de Silva and Foreign Secretary Chitranganee Wagiswara will be receiving the first consignment of Flood Relief Material from India that will be handed over by Indian ...

Due to scheduling difficulties in view of work under way for budget and other meetings, the media briefing will not be held this week. Date for next media briefing will be informed in due course. Letter announcement in ...