Newly appointed Country Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) to Sri Lanka Aburrahim Siddiqui presented his credentials to Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Foreign Ministry yesterday, Ministry said.
The 50th anniversary of the long-standing relationship between the Government of Sri Lanka and the World Food Programme falls in November this year.
Accepting the credentials, Minister Gunawardena said that Ms. Brenda Barton, who served previously as Sri Lanka's Country Director to the World Food Programme had done an excellent job and that Sri Lanka expects similar cooperation from the new Country Director, the Ministry said in a statement.
The new Country Director of the World Food Program (WFP) to Sri Lanka Mr. Siddiqui said Sri Lanka and the World Food Programme (WFP) would work to further strengthen the existing close and friendly relationship.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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