Mangala Samaraweera informed the people of Matara who had courageously provided him protection and placed their confidence in him for three decades that he...
Political sources in Colombo are buzzing with rumours of a possible cabinet reshuffle within the next two weeks.
President Sirisena told media on 20th April...
Statement by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the High Level Segment of the 34th Session of the Human Rights Council.
Mr. President
High Commissioner for Human...
Image: Sri Lanka FM Samaraweera will address a side event on ‘Developments in Sri Lanka’ on 1st March.(c) s.deshapriya.
There are 13 side events planned ...
By Mangala Samaraweera.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera says that " Today Sri Lanka has a choice between impunity, conflict, corruption, extremism and poverty,...
( FM Samaraweera: First step towards implementing HRC 30 resolution)
In the wake of the Office of Missing Persons Bill being passed in Parliament, Foreign...
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera welcomed Assistant Secretaries of State Nisha Biswal and Tom Malinowski to the island, this evening.
Biswal, the US Assistant Secretary of...
( Sri Lanka FM Mangala Samaraweera and Swiss Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter)
(Bern, 03.03.2016) A meeting between Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and Federal...
SRI LANKA: HUMAN RIGHTS, RULE OF LAW AND RECONCILIATION PROGRESS
January 2015 - February 2016
Prepared by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Sri Lanka
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March 2016
1. The Cabinet...
(Recent developments in Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Foreign Minster Mangala Samaraweera's speech at the 20th Meeting of the Governing Council of the Community of...
(Major General Chagi Gallage: A Rajapaksa loyalist?)
Sri Lanka's government came face-to-face with military insubordination at a very high level when Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera...
Picture courtesy RepublicSquareby Rev. Fr. Elil Rajendram SJ
The following is Rev. Fr. Ranjendram’s speech delivered yesterday at the BMICH, commemorating the Day of the Disappeared...
(Concluding Remarks made by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera on October 23rd 2015 in the Parliamentary debate on the resolution on Sri Lanka passed by...
The Government has postponed the diaspora festival which was to take place in December, the Foreign Ministry said.
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson told the Daily...
Moments after he delivered a ground-breaking speech before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday (14), Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera told the...
By Stephanie Nebehay.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new government said on Monday it was setting up a South Africa-style truth and reconciliation commission to...
Following the Parliamentary election last week and the victory of the United National Front for Good Governance led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is keen to engage all diaspora groups including Tamils in reconciliation efforts, foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera has said stressing the new...
The government had commenced devising an indigenous mechanism to investigate alleged human rights violations and war crimes said to have taken place during the...
(Tamara Kunanayagam )
Former Sri Lankan permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Tamara Kunanayagam had acted on the LTTE’s behalf and aided and abetted...
Remarks With Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Mangala Samaraweera Before Their Meeting.
SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s my great pleasure to welcome Foreign Minister...
Samaraweera: Sharma, act now''We recall that you promised Sri Lanka would put plans in place to change its legislative procedures to remove senior judges...
Press statement by Hon. Mangala SamaraweeraAll right thinking people of Sri Lanka unequivocally and unreservedly condemn the purported appointment by President Mahinda Rajapaksa...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
