Sri Lanka’s external reserves will aggregate US$ 8 billion with the proceeds of the US$ 1 billion Sovereign Bond Issue arriving in Sri Lanka today. The value date of the Sovereign Bond Issue was July 20 and the issue dat ...
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Minister of External Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris states that the visit by President Rajapaksa to Russia was a success
Minister of External Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris stated that all politically motivated campaigns against Sri Lanka would fail as they were based on wrong information and not on objective assessments. Addressing the media ...
Statement by the Ministry of External Affairs
The Government of Sri Lanka has noted the statement by the British Foreign Office Minister for South Asia, Alistair Burt on the Channel 4 documentary telecast on 14th June 2011. This documentary, like the Darusman ...
Government’s response to Channel 4 Film – “ Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields”
The Ministry of External Affairs directed its High Commission in London to issue a statement on this matter. The Ministry’s statement was issued in London on Wednesday, 15th June, 2011. Appended below is ...
Heads of Missions appointed to Sri Lanka Missions abroad
President Mahinda Rajapaksa recently appointed several Heads of Missions who are due to take up their overseas assignments shortly. Among them are senior Foreign Service Officers and other distinguished personalities fro ...
Statement by Attorney-General of Sri Lanka, Mohan Pieris, during the Interactive Dialogue on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns 17th Session of the Human Rights Council, 31 May 2011
Mr. President, Sri Lanka welcomes the Special Rapporteur’s efforts to provide the government an opportunity to respond to his technical note, we would however like to observe that the whole exerci ...
Statement made by Minister of Plantation Industries, Mahinda Samarasinghe at the 17th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on 30th May 2011
Mr PresidentExcellenciesMadam High CommissionerDistinguished delegates I wish to commend the constructive manner in which you, Mr President, have been conducting the work of the Human Rights Council. Our deliberations ha ...
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