Sri Lanka High Commission in Ottawa

The Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms is calling for submissions from diaspora organisations on the design of structures, processes and measures for truth, accountability, reparations and non-recurrence, i.e. an Office on Missing Persons, an Office on Reparations; a Judicial Mechanism with a Special Counsel; a Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and Non-Recurrence Commission; and any other mechanisms, processes or measures for advancing reconciliation in Sri Lanka.

Submissions can be made to the Task Force by diaspora organisations/ individuals until August 10th, 2016.

Please see announcement :        

in Sinhala

Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies, Singapore, Ambassador Gopinath Pillai, Chairman, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Distinguished delegates and Friends. 

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Let me thank you at the outset for inviting me to this, the third South Asia Diaspora Convention, hosted by the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore. This event underscores the strategic position to which Singapore has evolved in the last 51 years as a key intersection between the East and the West. That we South Asians are congregating for this event in a South-East Asian nation is testimony to Singapore’s vision and skill in hosting these events. 

Read more: Opportunities of Convergence Speech at the South Asian Diaspora Convention by Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka On Monday 18th July 2016,

Remarks to Media by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera

following discussions with US Asst. Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal & US Asst. Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour

Tom Malinowski

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombo. 12 July 2016

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen, 

It is a pleasure to welcome Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal and Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour Tom Malinowski to Sri Lanka and to this Ministry, once again. 

I am sure that by now, both Nisha and Tom are quite familiar to all of you. 

Read more: Remarks to Media by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera following discussions with US Asst. Secretaries of State: 12 July 2016

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

It has been an honour and a great privilege to welcome to Sri Lanka the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Wang Yi. The visit is significant as it is the first high level visit and the first visit by a Foreign Minister of China, following the formation of the National Unity Government in Sri Lanka.

Read more: Statement by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Foreign Affairs following bilateral talks with H.E. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China on 8th July 2016 in Colombo.

Minister of Development Strategies & International Trade Malik Samarawickrama visited New Delhi from July 4-5, 2016 on the invitation of the Minister of Commerce and Industry of India Nirmala Sitharaman. He also held consultations with Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha. In addition, he met a representative group of CEOs of leading Indian companies.

Read more: Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama concludes successful visit to India

H.E. Bulat Sarasenbayev, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan resident in New Delhi met with Mrs. Chitranganee Wagiswara, Secretary of Foreign Affairs on 4^th July, to discuss matters of bilateral cooperation between Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan. 

Read more: Agreement on exemption of visas for Diplomatic & Official Passports signed between Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan