Finance Minister meets with UN Assistant Secretary General Kanni Wignaraja

United Nations Assistant Secretary General, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Assistant Administrator and Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Ms. Kanni Wignaraja met with the Minister of Finance, Basil Rajapakse yesterday. 

Ms. Kanni Wignaraja conveyed UNDP’s global and country offer, experience on innovative development financing, and SDG-aligned budgeting.

Ms Kanni Wignaraja is visiting Sri Lanka currently with the aim of better understanding country priorities and exploring new avenues of support from UNDP to Sri Lanka—particularly focusing on follow up to the recently concluded UN Climate Change Conference COP26, post-COVID-19 socio-economic recovery in the region, and leveraging of more development financing to the country.

The official visit will focus on the human development agenda and the acceleration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) also given COVID-19 socio-economic impacts, while importantly celebrating the human development achievements of Sri Lanka.