Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage was interviewed on Sirasa TV1 on 05 January 2021 where he explained about the repatriation process of Sri Lankan’s overseas and the revival of the tourism industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The full interview is...
Despite the worsening global situation triggered by the Covid pandemic, the process of repatriation of Sri Lankans, one of the most pressing challenges at hand has been judiciously spear headed by the Foreign Ministry under the directive of Minister...
දැනට පවතින COVID-19 වසංගතය තත්වය සහ ඔස්ට්රියානු රජය විසින් පනවා ඇති රෙගුලාසි ප්රකාරව තානාපති කාර්යාලය විසින් 2020 නොවැම්බර් 17 වන අඟහරුවාදා සිට 2020 දෙසැම්බර් 4 වන සිකුරාදා දක්වා බලපැවැත්වෙන පරිදි කොන්සියුලර් සේවා සීමා කර ඇත. එම කාලය තුළ තානාපති කාර්යාලය මගින්...
The Foreign Ministry has decided to resume document attestation services offered by the Consular Affairs Division of the Ministry to limited number of clients per day strictly on prior appointment basis with effect from 11 November 2020, in order to ensure...
3 July 2020 Visionary political leadership of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the effective use of technology in a whole – of – government approach has enabled Sri Lanka to control the COVID-19 and a wide range of pandemic related issues – said Foreign Minister...
2 June 2020 YouTube link to the interview of Foreign Secretary on “Get Real“ with Mahieash Johnney on ‘Foreign Relations amid COVID - 19’ telecast on Ada Derana 24 on 01 June 2020 Link: https://youtu.be/PG9rQyOnSV8...
1 June 2020 Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha in an interview with the Ceylon Today newspaper, published on 31 May 2020 has discussed the many challenges faced by the Foreign Relations Ministry in dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic both within and...
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...
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...
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...
