High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay called on Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on 03 August, 2021. Minister Gunawardena thanked the government and the people of India for extending assistance to Sr ...
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Establishment of Three Regional Offices within the past ten months to decentralize the Consular services of the Foreign Ministry
The Programme on Decentralization of Consular Services within the purview of the Foreign Ministry is underway. Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage points out that this Programme is being conducted under th ...
Foreign Ministers welcome opening of New Zealand High Commission in Colombo
New Zealand and Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministers, Nanaia Mahuta and Dinesh Gunawardena, have welcomed the opening of the New Zealand High Commission in Colombo next week. The Foreign Ministers, who met virtually yesterda ...
Courtesy call by the New Zealand High Commissioner
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawrdena at a meeting on 02 August 2021, welcomed the first New Zealand resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Michael Appleton and discussed a wide range of initiatives for expanding practic ...
Singapore-based global non-profit, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste donates beach cleaning machinery to Sri Lanka
The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) of Sri Lanka received eight (08) BeachTech Hydro Sweepy beach cleaning machinery worth about US$180,000, donated by Singapore-based global non-profit, the Alliance to ...
The first consignment of AstraZeneca vaccines received from Japan at the request of the President arrived in Sri Lanka day before yesterday
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena expressed his gratitude to the Government of Japan and its people on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka for donating over 1.4 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to Sri Lanka at ...
Video of Counterfeit “NIKE” shoes with LTTE insignia circulating on social media
The attention of this Ministry was drawn to a video circulating on social media of a pair of shoes, bearing the NIKE logo and LTTE insignia. On inquiry, NIKE, Inc. confirmed that the shoes depicted in the video have not ...