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Address by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Lecture
Address by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera
at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Lecture
Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations & Strategic Studies, Colombo: 24 August 2015
I have the honour today, as the Chairman of the Board of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies, to speak a little about my late cabinet colleague Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar and also introduce our guest speaker, the Rt. Hon. Tony Blair.
Foreign Minister Samaraweera assumes duties
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera assumed duties at the Foreign Ministry today. This is his third stint at the Foreign Ministry, having been Foreign Minister for the first time between November 2005 and January 2007, and for the second time between January 2015 and August 2015.
New Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Viet Nam presents Credentials
Ms. Hasanthi Urugodawatte Dissanayake presented her Credentials as the new Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Viet Nam to His Excellency Truong Tan Sang, the President of Viet Nam on 20th August 2015 at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi.
Mangala Samaraweera appointed as Foreign Minister
Hon. Mangala Samaraweera MP was appointed today as Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister. Taking oaths in the presence of President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, he re-affirmed his commitment to “faithfully perform the duties and discharge the functions of the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in accordance with the Constitution”.
This is the third time Minister Samaraweera will hold the portfolio, having held it for the first time between November 2005 and January 2007, and for the second time between January 2015 and August 2015.
New High Commissioner presents credentials
The new High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Australia, Mr. Somasundaram Skandakumar presented credentials to Sir Peter Cosgrove, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, today, 19 August 2015 at the Governm ...
Execution of three Sri Lanka nationals in Saudi Arabia
A Saudi national, Mr. Omar Yeslam Saeed, was murdered and then robbed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 11 May 2007. Six Sri Lanka nationals and two other foreign nationals were arrested in this connection by the Saudi authorities.
From the time of the arrest of the six Sri Lanka nationals, the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Jeddah continuously extended all consular assistance required by the Sri Lanka nationals.
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