International Affairs

A top U.S. official who was in Sri Lanka yesterday delivered a letter from her President Donald Trump to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa underscoring his government’s commitment and interest in furthering and depending partnership with Sri Lanka.

STRENGTHENING TIES: Japanese State Minister of Regional Revitalization Kozo Yamamoto called on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday. Japanese Ambassador Akira Sugiyama was also present.

රුසියානු ජනපති වැලඩිමීර් පුටින්ගේ විශේෂ නියෝජිතයකු ලෙස විදේශ ඇමැති සර්ජි ලැව්රොව් ජනපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා සමග සාකච්ඡා පැවැත්වීම සඳහා මෙම 14 දා මෙරටට පැමිණෙයි.

Dr. P.N Meegaswatte gets an overseas posting as the Thailand ambassador official source said adding that Sri Lanka maintains 67 missions/posts overseas at present.

On the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will undertake his first official visit to India next month, sources from the Foreign Affairs Ministry told Daily Mirror yesterday.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives in Colombo on Monday morning on a brief officla visit while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives on Tuesday morning, according to the announcements by the Chinese and Russian missions in Colombo. They are both here on tight schedules for separate top level meetings with the Government to discuss the entire range of bilateral relations, according to government sources.

China has pledged to assist Sri Lanka become economically independent and continues to standby Sri Lanka’s interests.

Three High level diplomatic envoys of Global Super Powers the US, China and Russia will be arriving in SriLanka on Sunday the 12th night and tomorrow in an unprecedented offivial missions almost two months under the reign of new President Gotabaya Rajapksa.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉරාන තනාපති මොහොමඩ් සයරි අමීරානි මහතා අද(10) හිටපු ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා හමුවිය.

Russia says it will continue its arms trade with Sri Lanka by providing weapons to the military and help Sri Lanka improve its defence system.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is to travel to India next month for talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, The Sunday Morning newspaper reported.

The Trump administration's point person for South and Central Asia, Alice G Wells, will visit Sri Lanka and India next week for a series of bilateral meetings, officials said.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continues to be listed as a terrorist group in the EU’s renewed terrorist list of persons and organisations subject to sanctions.

India is set to share expertise and experiences in technology, skills development and training of youth with Sri Lanka.

විදේශ රටවලට නව තානාපතිවරුන් පත් කිරීම ආරම්භ කළ බව විදේශ කටයුතු පිළිබඳ අමාත්‍යාංශය පවසයි.නෝර්වේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති ලෙස ඒ.එල්.ඒ. අසීස් ද, මියන්මාරයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති ලෙස මහාචාර්ය නලීන් ද සිල්වා, ප්‍රංශයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා තානාපති ලෙස ඊවා වනසුන්දරද, එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්‍යයේ තානාපති ලෙස මල්රාජ් ද සිල්වා ද පත්කර ඇත.

දකුණු සහ මධ්‍යම ආසියානු කටයුතු පිළිබඳව අමෙරිකානු නියෝජ්‍ය සහකාර ලේකම් ඇලිස් වෙල්ස් මහත්මිය දෙදින නිල සංචාරයක් සදහා අද දිවයිනට පැමිණීමට නියමිතය.

Dates have not yet been fixed for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s proposed visit to China, the President’s Office said.

India has sought the release of Indian fishermen and boats currently in the custody of Sri Lanka.