Sri Lanka High Commission in Ottawa

Washington DC: In a meeting with the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Dana J. Hyde, Sri Lanka's Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam emphasized the desire of the Government to establish a partnership with the United States under the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Read more: SRI LANKA EXPLORES PARTNERSHIP WITH THE U.S. MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC)

Sri Lanka is saddened by the crash of a military aircraft carrying armed forces personnel and their families in Medan, Indonesia, which has resulted in the loss of many lives.

In this hour of grief, we express our heartfelt condolences to the Government and the people of Indonesia, in particular, the families of the deceased. Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with all those affected by this tragedy.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
Colombo

2 July 2015

WEDNESDAY 24^TH JUNE 2015

Honorable Speaker,

I wish to answer the questions posed by the Hon. Leader of Opposition, relating to the US State Department Report titled ‘Country Reports on Terrorism and Patterns of Global Terrorism.’

The US State Department released their Counterterrorism Report this June 2015. The report covered the calendar year 2014, during which Hon. Nimal Siripala De Silva himself was a cabinet minister in the Rajapaksa administration. It noted that a total of 13 LTTE supporters were arrested in Malaysia in 2014. Like the report that preceded it, covering the calendar year 2013, it mentioned that the LTTE’s network of support continued to operate - shockingly, under the very regime that claimed to have eradicated this threat once and for all.

Read more: Statement made by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, on 24th June 2015 in Response to Nimal Siripala De Silva

The Ministry’s attention has been drawn to certain media reports in the Japanese print and electronic media during Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s visit to Japan (17-20 June 2015) pertaining to Sri Lanka’s foreign policy.

Read more: Spokesperson’s response to questions pertaining to statements attributed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs during his official visit to Japan

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera undertook a visit to Japan from 17 to 20 June 2015 on the invitation of his Japanese counterpart, Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida.  The visit, which was the first official visit undertaken by an emissary of the new Government to Japan, focussed on further consolidating the close and friendly relations between the two countries for mutual benefit.

Read more: Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera Concludes Successful Visit to Japan

Video at: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fAX4OhKeNcE (Approx. 6.54 minutes)

මම කතාව අවසන් කරන්න ඉස්සෙල්ලා තව වචන කීපයක් මේ මාධ්‍ය දැක්ක නිසා මේ වෙලාව සිංහලෙන් කියන්න කැමතියි.

මොකද මං දැක්කා මේ අද උදේ එනකොට, පුවත්පත් බලනකොට, එක්තරා දේශපාලන පක්ෂ නියෝජිතයෙක් මා විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද ඩයස්පෝරා උළෙල සම්බන්ධයෙන් විකෘති වූ අදහස්  ප්‍රකාශ කරළා තිබුනා, එහි ප්‍රකාශ කරළා තිබුනා, මේ උළෙලට එක්සත්  ජාතීන්ගේ මානව අයිතීන් කවුන්සලයෙන් ඇමරිකන් ඩොලර් මිලියන 3 ½ක් ලැබෙන බවත්, මේක ඊලාම්වාදය යළි වතාවක් ලංකාවට ගෙන ඒමේ වෑයමක් කියලත් පුවත්පත්වල අද ප්‍රකාශයට පත්වෙලා තිබුනා.

Read more: ගරු මංගල සමරවීර ඇමතිතුමා විසින් මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා සම්බන්ධයෙන් කරන ලද කරුණු පැහැදිලි කිරීම: 2015 ජුනි 22 දින

Address by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, MP., Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka

High-Level Seminar on Peacebuilding, National Reconciliation and Democratisation in Asia

Tokyo, Japan, 20 June 2015

Hon. Fumio Kishida, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan,

Mr. Yasushi Akashi, General Chairman,

Excellencies,

Distinguished guests,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a pleasure for me to join you here at this High-Level Seminar on Peacebuilding, National Reconciliation and Democratisation in Asia, to share with you, details of Sri Lanka’s experience and our journey towards achieving lasting peace, reconciliation, prosperity and dignity for all our people.

Read more: Foreign Minister Samaraweera addresses High-Level Seminar in Tokyo