International Affairs

කොරෝනා වසංගතය හමුවේ මෙරටට අවශ්‍ය ශ්වසන ආධාරක යන්ත්‍ර ලබාදීමට අමෙරිකාව ඉදිරිපත් වී තිබේ. අමෙරිකානු ජනාධිපති ඩොනල්ඩ් ට්‍රම්ප් ගේ උපදෙස් මත එරට ආරක්ෂක උපදේශක රොබට් ඕ බ්‍රයන් මේ පිළිබඳව ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත දැනුම් දී ඇති බව සඳහන්.

A UK parliamentarian of Sri Lankan origin Ranil Jayawardena has been appointed as the Trade Minister in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government, British media reported.

A new study led by the U.S. government has found that a new strain of the novel coronavirus that is prevailing worldwide is spreading faster than earlier versions.

අගුලු දැමීම් ලිහිල් කරන රටවල් අතිශය ප්‍රවේශම් සහගත ලෙස සහ පියවරෙන් පියවර එම හුවමාරු වීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය කළ යුතුව ඇතැයි ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය අනතුරු අඟවයි.

Geneva/Zurich (Reuters): The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned of the risks of returning to lockdown if countries emerging from pandemic restrictions do not manage transitions “extremely carefully and in a phased approach.”

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිනිය ඇලයිනා ටෙප්ලිට්ස් අද පෙරවරුවේ අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා මුණ ගැසී සාකච්ඡාවක් පවත්වා තිබෙනවා.

The Kuwaiti Government has offered to fly Sri Lankan migrant workers back, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

China Development Bank to lend funds to develop 105 km of road

Indian companies have been called upon to strengthen existing partnerships, while also looking for new opportunities for collaboration.

Washington (Reuters): The International Monetary Fund has approved requests for emergency pandemic aid from 50 of its 189 members for a total of about $18 billion and is continuing to work quickly through the remaining more than 50 requests, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday.

Vatican City (Reuters): Pope Francis said on Wednesday employers must respect the dignity of workers, particularly migrants, despite economic difficulties brought on by the coronavirus crisis.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday called for debt relief and fiscal stimulus for middle-income countries, including Sri Lanka, noting that the COVID-19 outbreak has created an unprecedented challenge for a large number of developing countries.

More foreign assistance pouring into Sri Lanka coffers to help the island nation in the fight against Civid-19 with Asian Development Bank joining in the foreign aid agency line up
the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided a guarantee for a $25 million trade loan to the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka (SPC) to purchase medical supplies as part of the country’s response to the novel corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Despite repeated denials of Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa that Sri Lanka still not received any foreign aid to sustain in corona virus crisis, the United States has announced the commitment of more than US$ 4.5 million to help Sri Lanka in its fight against Covid-19.

Australia has extended its support to Sri Lanka prepare for, and prevent, the spread of COVID-19, and to manage the social and economic impacts to come.

Responding to the urgent need of Sri Lankan side fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, 30,000 Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Test Kits (PCR-Fluorescence Probing) and 15,000 Disposable Coverall (PPEs), will arrive in Sri Lanka on May 8, the Chinese Embassy said.

කොවිඩ් 19 වෛරසයට එන්නතක් සොයාගත නොහැකි වීමේ වැඩි සම්භාවිතාවක් පවතින බව කොවිඩ් 19 වසංගතය පිළිබඳ ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානයේ විශේෂ නියෝජිත වෛද්‍ය ඩේවිඩ් නැබ්රෝ ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටියි.

හදිසි අවස්ථාවන්හිදී ක්‍රියාත්මක වන හොදම කණ්ඩායම සහිත ලෝකයේ දෙවන හමුදාව ලෙස ශ්‍රී ලංකා යුධ හමුදාව ලෝක සෞඛ්‍ය සංවිධානය විසින් නම් කර ඇති බව යුධ හමුදාපති ලුතිනන් ජනරාල් ශවේන්ද්‍ර සිල්වා පවසයි.