International Affairs

නව කොරෝනා වෛරසය සම්පූර්ණයෙන් පහව නොගොස්, HIV වැනි නිශ්චිත පුද්ගලයින් කොට්ඨාසයක පැතිරෙන වෛරසයක් ලෙස හෝ පැවතිය හැකි බවට ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය අනතුරු අඟවා සිටිනවා.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a unique global health crisis and requires a response across national boundaries. Throughout the world, government institutions, the private sector, health care services and civil society organisations have come together and pooled their resources in the fight against COVID-19. This is also the case in Sri Lanka.

චීනයේ නව ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපතිවරයා වශයෙන් එම්. සී. ෆර්ඩිනැන්ඩෝ මහතා පත් කිරීමට සියලු විධිවිධාන සකස් කර ඇති බව වාර්තා වේ.

Chinese President Xi Jinping suggested Wednesday that China and Sri Lanka, while ensuring COVID-19 prevention and control, gradually resume practical cooperation in various fields, advance major cooperation projects in an orderly manner and promote the high-quality construction of the Belt and Road, the Xinhua news agency reported.

NEW YORK - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on religious leaders Tuesday to play a key role in addressing the coronavirus pandemic and the recovery from it.

South Korea warned Sunday of the possibility of a second wave of COVID-19 infections.

NEW YORK - The United Nations warned Wednesday that the global financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could see economic output plummet by $8.5 trillion over the next two years and push more than 34 million people into extreme poverty.

WASHINGTON - For months, U.S. officials have been warning about a spike in cyberattacks during the coronavirus pandemic, but they’ve stopped short of pointing fingers at any one country.

Sri Lanka is on the right track to contain the COVID-19 epidemic through the increased tracking, testing, isolation, and treatment strategy, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement today.

A senior official with the International Monetary Fund says the world economic outlook may be even worse than the grim forecast announced by the organization last month.

කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරසයේ අවදානම හේතුවෙන් දැඩි සීමා පනවා තිබූ රටවල එම සීමා ලිහිල් කිරීමෙන් පසු ආසාදිතයන් වාර්තා වීම යළි ඉහළ ගොස් ඇති බව ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය පවසනවා. එම සංවිධානයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජෙනරාල්වරයා ඊයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී මේ බව පවසා තිබේ.

විදෙස්ගත සිසුන්ට යළිත් වරක් සිය රටට පැමිණ අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබීමේ අවස්ථාව උදාකිරීමට ඕස්ටේ‍්‍රලියාව තීරණය කර තිබෙනවා.

මුදල් විශුද්ධිකරණය හා ත්‍රස්තවාදයට අරමුදල් සැපයීම මැඬපැවැත්වීමේ උපාය මාර්ගික දුර්වලතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉහළ අවදානම් ඇති තෙවැනි පාර්ශ්වයේ රටවල් ලැයිස්තුවෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉවත් කිරීමට යුරෝපා කොමිසම තීරණය කර ඇත.

The Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardena has conveyed his deep appreciation to the Cuban Government for the support extended through the dispatch of a Cuban medical team to the Republic of Haiti to attend to the medical needs of Sri Lankans employed in Haiti.

Facebook and Google have said they will let employees continue working from home for the rest of the year.

The US embassy in Colombo yesterday reaffirmed that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa renounced his US citizenship in April 2019.

The European Commission has de-listed Sri Lanka from its list of High Risk Third Countries with Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Strategic Deficiencies published on May 7, the Central Bank said today. Sri Lanka was listed as a high risk third country by the EU in February 2018, subsequent to Sri Lanka being identified by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as a jurisdiction with strategic AML/CFT deficiencies in its Compliance Document which is more commonly identified as “the Grey List” in October 2017.

Gurudeb Rabindranath Tagore had a lasting affiliation with Sri Lanka and its people. He visited Sri Lanka thrice in his lifetime during 1922, 1928 and 1934 had a profound impact on the socio-cultural relationship between the two countries.