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Visit of UAE Foreign Minister H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nayhan to Sri Lanka

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The United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister, His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nayhan, visited Sri Lanka on the invitation of the Government of Sri Lanka.   

During bilateral consultations the Foreign Ministers explored ways of strengthening trade and investment ties, improving the welfare of Sri Lankan workers in the UAE, and collaborating on issues of regional and international concern.   Read More

Remarks by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Diplomatic Corps based in Colombo, 28 August 2015

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It is my pleasure, this evening, to welcome all of you today to the Republic building, having been sworn in early this week as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. At the moment Sri Lanka has the dubious honour of having the smallest Cabinet in the world, having had the largest in the world last year.  At the moment we have a Cabinet of five, but the Government will be in place by Wednesday. 

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Appointment of Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to Myanmar

The Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has, with the concurrence of the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar decided to appoint Mr. K.W.N.D. Karunaratne as the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in succession to His Excellency H.R. Piyasiri.

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Address by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Lecture

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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.  

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Foreign Minister Samaraweera assumes duties

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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.

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Mangala Samaraweera appointed as Foreign Minister

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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.

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