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A group of six young cross-party Sri Lankan parliamentarians have recently visited UK on a week long tour to explore its governance and democracy models, and also to meet UK-based Diaspora.
The tour organized by the International Alert, a Peace building organization, has been funded by the British High Commission in Colombo.
Among the parliamentarians, who visited [...]
By: Robbie Bulloch, British Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Maldives
On Monday I took part in a ceremony to round off a two-day workshop for youth leaders across Sri Lanka.
The event, held at the National Youth Services Council in Maharagama, was run to coincide with Commonwealth Day, which is celebrated across the globe in [...]
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa commenced a four-day official visit to Japan starting from Tuesday.
Accordingly, the President along with the first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa arrived at the Haneda International Airport in Tokyo a few hours ago.
He has been received by Minoru Kiuchi, Parliamentary vice Minister for Foreign Affairs in Japan.
Sri Lanka Ambassodor in Japan Admiral [...]
The Sri Lankan government has the asked United States to abandon the prosecution of a Canadian charged with buying equipment and laundering money for the LTTE, a group once operated in the Island, fighting for a separate state.
A media report says, Sri Lankan government has sent a letter to the U.S. State Department to drop [...]
The US Embassy in Sri Lanka say, it is concerned with the decision taken by the Police to stop a group of family members of the disappeared, who were traveling to Colombo from the North.
According to local media reports, the Police have prevented the group from proceeding beyond Vavuniya.
The group has been traveling to meet [...]
Pakistan has appointed Major General (Retired) Qasim Qureshi as its new envoy in Sri Lanka, announced the Pakistani embassy in Colombo.
The retired Major General, who is expected to arrive in the Island today has held several important positions in the Pakistani army, while he was on active military service.
According to the embassy, he was the [...]
The British Member of Parliament Simon Danczuk will arrive in Sri Lanka during this week, to press for justice for British citizen, Khuram Shaikh, who was murdered, while holidaying in Sri Lanka in 2011, announced the UK Embassy in Colombo.
According to the embassy, the victim’s brother, Nasir Shaikh, too will arrive in Sri Lanka with [...]
President of the Janata Party of India, Dr. Subramanian Swamy today held a meeting with the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Swamy’s meeting with Rajapaksa comes amidst the ongoing protests launched in various forms by certain pro-LTTE elements in India against the Sri Lankan government.
Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and the Secretarty to the Ministry of External [...]
Sri Lanka on Wednesday strongly opposed a US sponsored resolution which is expected to be presented at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council against the Island nation, saying it is “unfair and unjust”.
Addressing the UNHRC, Sri Lankan Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said, despite his country is well on path to usher an era of sustainable development, [...]
India has decided to vote in support of a US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka proposed to be moved before the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva next month, a media report said.
Union minister in the Indian Prime Minister’s Office V. Narayansamy, has told reporters, that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised to a group [...]
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