Towards limiting the transmission of COVID-19 and to ensure effective implementation of the travel restrictions imposed on the newly designated countries, the Ministry of Foreign Relations has initiated action to regula ...
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Updated comment by Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Relations
Further to the Ministry comment yesterday (14 March 2020), regarding one of the family members of an officer of the Foreign Relations Ministry being diagnosed with COVID -19, and the series of precautionary measures take ...
Comment by Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Relations
On learning that one of the family members of an officer of the Foreign Ministry is diagnosed with COVID-19, the Ministry, upon seeking necessary medical advice, has taken a series of precautionary measures to avoid and ...
Precautionary measures to limit provision of consular services in overseas Sri Lanka Missions
In view of the present circumstances of the rapid spread of COVID-19 globally, and in order to limit the spread of the virus among Sri Lankans who visit the Sri Lanka Missions overseas, the Ministry of Foreign Relations ...
BIMSTEC Flag and Logo Competition
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) has initiated a “BIMSTEC Flag and Logo Competition”. Interested Sri Lankan nationals are invited to submit their entry as an in ...
NOTICE – Suspension of Visa on arrival
This Ministry wishes to inform that a meeting presided by the highest office has decided to suspend the ETA on arrival for foreigners. 01. Accordingly i. With effect from 12.00 noon (Sri Lanka time), 14th March 2020, t ...
Foreign Minister briefs diplomatic community on COVID- 19 preventive measures
Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardena briefed the Diplomatic community on the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic and the preventive measures the Government of Sri Lanka contemplates taking. The Foreign Minis ...