Two Secretaries to Ministries, a Secretary to State Ministry and three Ambassadors received the approval of the Parliamentary Committee on High Posts yesterday, Secretary-General office said.
This approval was granted at the Committee on High Posts chaired by the Hon. Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena today.
Accordingly, Mr. Jayantha Michael de Silva, Secretary to the Ministry of Technology, Mr. D.M.L Bandaranayake, Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Major General (Retd.) W.P.P Fernando, Secretary to the State Ministry of Disaster Management were given this approval.
In addition, the decision of the Foreign Ministry to appoint Savitri Panabokke as the new Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Republic of Korea was approved by the Parliamentary Committee on High Posts.
At the same time, approval was granted to appoint Ahmed Lebbe Sabarullah Khan as the new Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Sultanate of Oman and to appoint Mrs. S.H.U Dissanayake as the new Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Mr. Dasanayake said.
Minister Vidura Wickramanayake, Members of Parliament Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Dharmalingam Siddharthan and Dr. (Mrs) Sudarshani Fernandopulle were also present at this Committee Meeting.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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