International Affairs

Foreign Affairs State Minister Vasantha Senanayake paid an official visit to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from October 3 to 6 on the invitation of Venezuela Foreign Affairs Vice Minister Ruben Dario Molina to renew and promote cooperation between Sri Lanka and Venezuela.

Financial Assistance from the Netherlands for Construction of Rural Bridges and Establishment of National Vocational Training Institute at Hingurakgoda, Polonnaruwa

Sri Lanka is being represented by a low-key team at the 2019 World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings beginning this week in Washington D.C.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) yesterday in Washington DC separately called on countries, especially those developing, to aggressively pursue structural reforms to spur inclusive higher growth, which remains a challenge globally.

“Saemaul Undong Seminar 2019” organized by Saemaul Globalization Foundation was held recently at “MILODA” Academy of Financial Studies under the theme of “ Saemaul Development Goals for Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations “.

The World Bank yesterday revealed that Sri Lanka’s economy was forecast to grow by 2.7% in 2019, the slowest within South Asia, and above 3% over the next two years.

A combination of unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles have sent overweight and obesity rates soaring in Sri Lanka and around the world.

The International Monetary Fund yesterday downgraded global growth in 2019 to 3%, the lowest in a decade, although it sounded cautiously optimistic about a pickup in 2020.

Italian government expressed willingness to provide technical assistance and it is ready to make investments to generate electricity using solid waste in Sri Lanka which is a growing issue in the country.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) agreed to a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to be signed between the BIMSTEC Secretariat and the Asian Development Bank at a meeting in Colombo on 10 and 11 October, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Ambassador of Sri Lanka meets with Lebanese Labour Minister Camille Abousleiman

The Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the first cable car project in Sri Lanka to be built in Nuwara Eliya, the Ministry of Plantation Industries said today.

කොටි සංවිධානයට සාමාජිකයන් බඳවා ගැනීමට සහ සංවිධානය ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා අතිවිශාල ධනස්කන්ධයක් හුවමාරු වී ඇති බව පසුගිය අවස්ථා දෙකකදී මැලේසියානු ආරක්ෂක අංශ විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් කොටි සංවිධාන සාමාජිකයන්ගෙන් හෙළිකර ගෙන තිබේ.

The Asia Pacific Group of Ambassadors representing Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka had a three-day visit to Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia, on an invitation extended by Regional Government President from 4 October.

ජනාධිපතිවරණ නිරීක්ෂණය සඳහා විදේශීය නිරීක්ෂණ කණ්ඩායම් කිහිපයක් දිවයිනට පැමිණ ඇත.

ඒකීය රාජ්‍යය අහෝසි කිරීම, හිටපු කොටි 97 ක් නිදහස් කිරීම සහ ස්වයංපාලන ලබාදීම ඇතුළු ටීඑන්ඒ සංවිධානය ඉදිරිපත් කළ ඉල්ලීම් 13 ක් කොටි ඩයස්පෝරාව අනුමත කර ඇත.

Ambassador designate of Sri Lanka to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Shanika Dissanayake assumed duties at the Sri Lanka Embassy in Jordan on 6 October.

SriLankan Airlines today cancelled its flights from Colombo to Narita (flight UL460) and flight UL461 from Narita-Malé to Colombo due to Typhoon Hagibis.