Sri Lanka High Commission in Ottawa
Audio of Address of H.E. the President at First Session of the Eighth Parliament: 1st September 2015
Tuesday, 01 September 2015 19:17
The Audio of the Presentation of the Statement of Government Policy by H.E. the President of Sri Lanka made this afternoon at the ceremonial sitting of the first session of the Eighth Parliament has been recorded from the live stream and uploaded to the Ministry SoundCloud website. It can be accessed at the following link:-
Remarks by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Diplomatic Corps based in Colombo, 28 August 2015
Friday, 28 August 2015 00:00
Your Excellencies,
It is my pleasure, this evening, to welcome all of you today to the Republic building, having been sworn in early this week as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. At the moment Sri Lanka has the dubious honour of having the smallest Cabinet in the world, having had the largest in the world last year. At the moment we have a Cabinet of five, but the Government will be in place by Wednesday.
Remarks to the media by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and US Asst. Secretaries of State Nisha Biswal and Tom Malinowski
Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:50
Remarks to the media by
Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Foreign Affairs
following call by Ms. Nisha Biswal, Assistant Secretary of State
for South and Central Asia of the US State Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombo: 25 August 2015
Good Morning Ladies & Gentlemen.
I have just concluded discussions with Ms. Nisha Biswal, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia and Mr. Tom Malinowski, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour of the US State Department. I also welcomed Ambassador Atul Keshap who just assumed duties as the United States’ Ambassador to Sri Lanka.
Address by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:06
Address by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera
at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Lecture
Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations & Strategic Studies,
Colombo: 24 August 2015
I have the honour today, as the Chairman of the Board of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies, to speak a little about my late cabinet colleague Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar and also introduce our guest speaker, the Rt. Hon. Tony Blair.
Foreign Minister Samaraweera assumes duties
Tuesday, 25 August 2015 18:49
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera assumed duties at the Foreign Ministry today. This is his third stint at the Foreign Ministry, having been Foreign Minister for the first time between November 2005 and January 2007, and for the second time between January 2015 and August 2015.
Mangala Samaraweera appointed as Foreign Minister
Tuesday, 25 August 2015 18:55
Hon. Mangala Samaraweera MP was appointed today as Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister. Taking oaths in the presence of President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, he re-affirmed his commitment to “faithfully perform the duties and discharge the functions of the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in accordance with the Constitution”.
Read more: Mangala Samaraweera appointed as Foreign Minister
Ranil Wickremasinghe sworn in as Prime Minister
Friday, 21 August 2015 14:10
The leader of the United National Party (UNP) Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat today (21).
After Mr. Wickremesinghe took oaths as the new PM, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP), to work together in the next Parliament.
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