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The UNA-Sri Lanka, as a grassroots membership organisation, has a large network of volunteer-run branches which give individuals across Sri Lanka a chance to partake in UN activities. These range from speaker to fundraising events, these activities raise awareness and interest in the work of the United Nations at a local level across the country.
The ACJU consists of: the Council for Cooperation and Coordination (CCC), Social Service Division, Education, Fatwa Division, Public relations, Hilal (Crescent) division, Research and publishing division, Youth affairs, Women's affairs, Ulama affairs, Division for branch organizing, Maktab, and Islamic economics and finance divisions.
5th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement on 16–19 August 1976 in Colombo, Sri Lanka was the conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement. [1] 86 nations participated in the summit with additional 30 observers and guests representing all the continents in the world. [2]
This is a list of presidential international trips made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, who served as the 9th President of Sri Lanka from 21 July 2022 to 23 September 2024. Wickremesinghe, then Prime Minister, meets with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, October 2018.
During the Second World War, an air raid was carried out by Japan to bomb the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Later, relations between Japan and Sri Lanka became friendly, and they established official relations in 1952. Japan has an embassy in Colombo. [55] Sri Lanka has an embassy in Tokyo. [56]
At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007 in Kampala, Uganda, Commonwealth leaders agreed on Sri Lanka as the host for the 2011 meeting. [15] However, during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war the government was accused of committing war crimes, and hence at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2009 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago it was decided that the 2011 ...
The U.S. offered assistance to help Sri Lanka become an economic and strategic hub in the Indian Ocean region. [11] In February 2020, the U.S. State Department banned Sri Lanka's Army Chief Shavendra Silva from entering the United States for alleged human rights violations during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The Sri Lankan ...
It was formed by members of the Ceylon National Association (founded in 1888) and the Ceylon Reform League (founded in 1917). [2] The Ceylon National Congress played an instrumental role in the Sri Lankan independence movement. [3] Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam was the founding president of the party. [4]