International Affairs

130 Km railway track from Maho to Omanthai is to be upgraded with Indian concessional financing for the first time in hundred years making train travel between Colombo and Jaffna more convenient for commuters , Indian diplomatic sources said.

Concerns related to the Easter Sunday attacks were raised at a US State Department conference on religious freedom held in Washington.

UN Special Rapporteur Clément Nyaletsossi Voule will visit Sri Lanka from July 18 to 26 to assess rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the country, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said today.

The British Government has called on Sri Lanka to deliver on the commitments made to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

WhatsApp and Telegram users have been advised to take precaution while sharing media files after a top cybersecurity firm exposed a security lapse on the instant messaging platforms this week.

The commemoration ceremony for the third anniversary of the thwarted coup attempt was held on 15 July at the Official Residence of the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey.

The European Union (EU) today reiterated the strong and unequivocal opposition of the EU and its Member States to capital punishment.

Accusing the Madhya Pradesh government of “checking the facts” instead of executing his proposal to build a temple to Sita at Divurumpola in Sri Lanka, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that he is “surprised that this Kamal Nath government is talking about checking the facts”.

The European Union (EU) and Sri Lanka held an informal counter-terrorism dialogue where the EU presented a support package for Sri Lanka focusing on law enforcement, rehabilitation and disengagement, counter-narratives and online radicalisation.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් ඩේවිඩ් හොලි මහතා සහ උතුරු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර ආචාර්ය සුරේන් රාඝවන් මහතා අතර හමුවක් පසුගිය 16 වෙනිදා සවස ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාගේ නිල නිවසේදී සිදුව තිබෙනවා.

China Petroleum and Chemical Corp called Sinopec Corp, has set up a fuel oil company in Sri Lanka to supply fuel to ships along a major maritime route.

මේ වන විට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව විසින් නවතා දමා තිබෙන, ලංකාවට ඇතුල් වූ පසුව වීසා අවශ්‍යතා සපුරන සංක්‍රමණිකයන් සඳහා වීසා ලබාදීමේ වැඩසටහන අගෝස්තු 1 දා සිට නැවත ආරම්භ කිරීමට නියමිත ය.

ඇමරිකානු රජය රටවල් 100 ක් සමග සෝෆා හෙවත් ආරක්ෂක ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කර ඇතත් ඒවායේ අඩංගු කරුණු ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ කරුණුවලට වඩා වෙනස් බව හෙළි වී ඇත.

The European Union (EU) underlined the importance of efficient coordination of counter terrorism efforts, the essence of focusing on the prevention of violent extremism and the importance of counter terrorism responses to be fully in line with human rights obligations.

ඇමරිකානු විදේශ සබඳතා කමිටුවේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනෙක් වූ ඬේමියන් ටර්ජ් සහ සෙල්වා කසිම් මෙරටට පැමිණ ඉදිරි ජනපතිවරණය සහ දේශපාලන තත්ත්වය පිළිබඳව උතුරු පළාත් සභාවේ හිටපු මහ ඇමැති විග්නේෂ්වරන් ඇතුළු ද්‍රවිඩ දේශපාලකයන් සහ රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ප‍්‍රධානීන් කිහිප දෙනකු සමඟ රහස් සාකච්ඡුාවක් පවත්වා ඇත.

The Norwegian Embassy recently signed up with Moot Manor (Pvt) Ltd, becoming the first occupants of the soon to be completed M2M Veranda Offices in Colombo 02.

After the successful and pioneering training for Sri Lanka’s bamboo craftsmen in early 2019 and later in June, the third phase of the program was launched in Colombo on Wednesday 17 July.

The latest Sri Lankan Parliamentary delegation to tour China, which is led by former Cabinet Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, arrived in Shan Xi Province yesterday on its week-long visit. The delegation, comprising seven Parliamentarians and staff members, is scheduled to return on July 21.