20 May 2020 Reverend Maha Sanga representing Maha Nayaka Theros and Anu Nayaka Theros of Malwatta and Asgiriya Chapters, Amarapura and Ramannya Nikayas, His Eminence Cardinal, Hindu Kurukkal leader, Islam Mowlawi, Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa, former President and the Prime...
17 May 2020 Over 38,983 Overseas Sri Lankans (OSLs) in 143 countries at present seek to return home, based on information gathered mainly through the ‘Contact Sri Lanka’ Web Portal of the Ministry of Foreign Relations. This comprises 3,078 students, 4,040 short term...
17 May 2020 Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has called on migrant workers as well as students and parents, to carefully calibrate the effect repatriation at this time could have on their jobs and education, before making decisions to seek to return to Sri Lanka,...
16 May 2020 විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්යංශයේ ලේකම් රවිනාථ ආර්යසිංහ විදේශයන්හි රැකියාවල නිරතව සිටින සහ අධ්යාපන කටයුතුවල යෙදෙන ශ්රී ලාංකිකයින් කොරෝනා වෛරස රෝගය හමුවේ යළි දිවයිනට පැමිණීමේදී ආපසු එම රටවලට ගොස් සිය සුපුරුදු කටයුතුවල නිරතවීමට ඇති හැකියාව ගැනද අවධානය යොමුකරන ලෙස...
16 May 2020 The Ministry of Foreign Relations handed over Rs. 27.7 million to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday (May 14th), raised through the network of Sri Lanka Missions overseas, to support COVID-19 Health Care and Social Security Fund. Foreign Secretary...
10 May 2020 The Ambassador-designate of Sri Lanka to the Republic of Austria, Mr. Majintha Jayesinghe assumed duties at the Mission on 8 May 2020. The assumption of duties was marked by lighting the oil lamp in keeping with the Sri Lankan tradition....
7 May 2020 Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha participated in a television interview, recorded today (07 May 2020), at the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) where he expanded on the Cabinet Paper presented by Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena, Minister of Foreign...
7 May 2020 The Buddhists in Sri Lanka, together with fellow Buddhist brethren the world over, celebrate the Vesak, their supreme religious festival, with much religious fervour and enthusiasm. Since ancient times, it has been the practice to spend the period of Vesak...
5 May 2020 Modalities to issue temporary travel documents to undocumented workers abroad following proper authentication procedures have been agreed on by the Department of Immigration and Emigration. This follows consultations between the Ministry of Foreign...
5 May 2020 Your Excellencies, Ayubowan! Good Evening! At the outset, I congratulate His Excellency Ilam Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, the Chair of the Non Aligned Movement, for the timely initiative to hold this Summit, to address one of the most critical...
