Top postings for career diplomats

A number of Sri Lanka Foreign Service career officers are in for new diplomatic postings, according to preparations now under way. In the running to take over as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in the United Kingdom is Manisha Gunasekera. She is currently the Sri Lanka Ambassador in South Korea. This post in Seoul is to be taken over by Ganehigama Arachchi, at present Director General (Consular) in the Foreign Ministry.

Sri Lanka’s new envoy to Russia is likely to be M.A.C.M. Wijeratne, currently Legal Officer in the Foreign Ministry. To be posted to Canada is Mohamed Jaffer, now envoy in the Netherlands. The likely candidate to be posted to South Africa is Asoka Girihagama now Director General in the Foreign Ministry.

In the corridors of the Foreign Ministry, the talk is over who will be posted to India to succeed High Commissioner Chitrangani Wagiswara. A top official is known to be strongly backing another lady career diplomat for the post though a decision is yet to be made.

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