The Sri Lanka Welfare Association under the patronage of His Excellency Donald Perera, the Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Israel celebrated the Sri Lankan National festival the Sinhala and Tamil New Year on 16th April, 2011 in Jerusalem with the participation of a large number of Sri Lankans. Mr. Shimshon Harel, Honorary Consul for Sri Lanka in Haifa and the North of Israel and officials from the Jerusalem Municipality attended the festival.
Dr. Sarath Amunugama, Sri Lanka’s senior minister of international monetary cooperation, met with a group of U.S., business leaders here Monday and received an encouraging feedback on the investor interest in the Sri Lanka’s economy.
Key members of Congress have urged their colleagues to support a campaign for stronger U.S.-Sri Lankan relations and to back the people of Sri Lanka as they continue to recover from years of conflict against terrorism.
