Ministry News

The Government of the Russian Federation with the concurrence of the government of Sri Lanka has appointed Mr. Yuri B. Materiy as the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Sri Lanka in Succession of H.E. Mr. Alexander ...

The Government of Canada with the concurrence of the government of Sri Lanka has appointed Mr. David McKinnon as the High Commissioner of Canada to Sri Lanka in Succession of H.E. Ms. Shelley Whiting. Ministry of Forei ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Tilak Marapana attended the Seventeenth Council of Ministers’ Meeting (COM) of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) in Durban, South Africa, on 18 October 2017. The Meeting marked the comm ...

The Fifth Sri Lanka-Pakistan Foreign Office Consultations was held on 17 October 2017 in Colombo, after a lapse of three years.  Foreign Secretaries Prasad Kariyawasam and Tehmina Janjua of Sri Lanka and Pakistan respec ...

The Consular Affairs Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was awarded the Public Sector Most Outstanding ICT Achievement Award and the Gold Award in the Government and Public Sector Category at the 19th National ...

The Foreign Secretaries of Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Prasad Kariyawasam and Tehmina Janjua, will lead the respective Foreign Ministry delegations to the Fifth Foreign Office consultations that will take place in Colombo on ...

State Minister of Foreign Affairs Vasantha Senanayake led the Sri Lanka Delegation to the 4th International Our Oceans Conference, which was held in Malta from 5th – 6th October 2017. State Minister Senanayake delivered ...