The Japanese Prime Minister's Special Advisor, Dr Hiroto Izumi, is expected to meet Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe between June 20 - 22.
Accordingly, Sri Lanka's Ambassador to Japan has requested the Prime Minister to urge the visiting state official to revise Japan's travel advisory imposed on Sri Lanka.
The Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry had issued a travel advisory on April 26 after the deadly Easter Sunday bombings shook Sri Lanka. This travel advisory stands raised at Level 2 which is to avoid non-essential and non-urgent travel to the island.
Due to this reason, "main Japanese tour operators have suspended their tours to Sri Lanka", Ambassador Dammika Ganganath Disanayake said in a letter to the Prime Minister.
Accordingly, he urged that the request to revise the travel advisory be put forward before the visting Special Advisor to the Japanese Prime Minister in a bid to uplift tourist arrivals in the country.
At present, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, China, India, UK, France, Belgium, and Netherlands have now revised their travel advisories on Sri Lanka, Mr. Disanayake said.
Mr. Ali Sabri Rahim, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Puttalam District whom an open warrant had been issued, attended a public ceremony at Al Aksha National School in Kalpitiya today (16) as the special guest of honor.
All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena has been sent on compulsory leave pending disciplinary investigation over his failure to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings.
The 22nd amendment to the constitution dealing with the term of the President has been gazetted by order of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Auspicious times widely followed by candidates keeping with traditions will be taken into consideration by the Election Commission in fixing the date and time for the conduct on the Presidential polls.
The Cabinet of Ministers has granted policy approval to change the wording “exceeding six years” in paragraph (b) of Article 83 of the Constitution to “exceeding five years” with reference to the President’s tenure.
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