UN and EU envoys to hold talks with Wigneswaran

The UN and EU envoys to Sri Lanka are to hold talks with the?Northern Province Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran this week.

The EU office in Colombo said that the EU Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Tung-La? Margue, will visit the Northern Province from 15-17 February 2017.

The EU office said that Ambassador Margue, together with the United Nations Resident Coordinator Ms. Una?McCauley, will meet Wigneswaran on 15 February.

They will travel to the Vavuniya district to visit projects implemented by UN agencies as part of the European Union Support to District Development Programme (EU-SDDP).

Ambassador Margue will also visit the Kanagarayankulam Police Station to inaugurate a Women and Children’s Desk; inspect the Public Employment Service Centre at the District Secretariat; handover equipment to the Technical College of the Department of Technical Education and Training in Nelumkulam; inaugurate a sewerage and wastewater treatment plant for the Vavuniya General Hospital; and declare open a Local Economic Development Centre and Economic Advisory Service in Venkalachedikulam.

Ambassador Margue will also visit an EU-funded housing project implemented by Habitat for Humanity Sri Lanka and World Vision Lanka in the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts. (Colombo Gazette)