No-confidence motion on Parliament Secretary General rejected

US report notes attacks on religious minorities in Sri Lanka continued

The annual report on religious freedom released by the US State Department has noted that attacks on religious minorities continued unabated in 2017 from the previous year. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback released the?International Religious Freedom Report for 2017 at the US State Department yesterday (Tuesday). According to the report, the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) documented 97 inc

30 May, 2018

President sees need to slash staff at Sri Lankan embassies

President Maithripala Sirisena has said there was a need to slash staff at Sri Lankan embassies overseas, sources said. The President has proposed that staff at most Sri Lankan missions overseas be reduced by at least 50 percent. The President had said this when he met Immigration and Emigration Officials, An official who was at the meeting told the Colombo Gazette on the condition of anonymity that the President had agreed to a point raised that some?Sri Lankan embassies overseas were not pr

28 May, 2018

Sri Lankans stranded in Somaliland following labour dispute to return

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in coordination with the Sri Lanka Embassy in Addis Ababa, and with the assistance of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has succeeded in working towards ensuring the safe return of twelve Sri Lankan migrant workers stranded in Somaliland as a result of a labour dispute. Sri Lanka does not have diplomatic and consular presence in Somaliland. Therefore, the Ministry and the Sri Lanka Embassy in Addis Ababa worked with the IOM Office in Hargeisa wh

29 May, 2018