Clarence Felician Chinniah, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Poland passed away in Warsaw on Thursday following a cardiac arrest, the Foreign Ministry said.
Ambassador Chinniah joined the Sri Lanka Foreign Service in 1985, prior to which he had served as a member of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service since 1977. During this period he had served as Assistant Government Agent in the Trincomalee District, the Ministry said.
“Ambassador Chinniah had a wide ranging and distinguished career in the Foreign Service, having served in the Sri Lankan Embassies in Beijing, Havana and Brussels. He held his first Head of Mission appointment as High Commissioner in the Maldives between 1998 and 2001,” the Ministry said in a media release.
Thereafter he had served as Deputy High Commissioner (with Ambassadorial rank) in New Delhi. Upon his return to the Foreign Ministry in July 2005, Ambassador Chinniah was appointed as Senior Director General in charge of Administration and Consular Affairs.
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