Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

The members of Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank held detailed discussion with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Sri Lanka’s financial requirements for projects for the next 5 years at the Temple Trees in Colombo on October 10.

Expressing satisfaction over Sri Lanka’s quick stabilization of the economy after the last year’s crisis, they said the ADB would favourably respond to proposed new projects on digitalization and IT, public transport, human resource development and education, water and small and medium enterprises development.

They also praised the efforts of the government to provide social security support to vulnerable groups in the society.

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The awarding of appointment letters of grade 3 management service for 447 applicants who passed the management service examination has taken place today (10.10.2023) at the Temple Trees under the patronage of Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.

The appointments were granted to those who passed the Management Service Examination according to the recommendations of the Recruitment Review Committee, the decisions of the Cabinet and the approval of the Public Service Commission.

The Ministry of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government has awarded the appointments of Management Service under three phases and these appointments have been awarded under the third phase.
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Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Komura Masahiro said his country would continue to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery process and congratulated the government for stabilising economy during a short span of time and making further progress. He expressed confidence that structural reforms undertaken by the government would improve the conducive atmosphere for foreign investments.

During his discussion with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees this morning (October 10), the Foreign Minister said his visit to Sri Lanka to attend the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) has given his an opportunity to interact with Sri Lankan leadership regarding bilateral cooperation. He assured f MORE >>

The Prime Minister said today (09.10.2023) that the cooperation between countries that is developed through sports is vital to the new generation. He said this while attending the opening ceremony of the Central Asian Men’s Volleyball Challenge Cup held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium.

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Sri Lanka represent this tournament.

Speaking further, the Prime Minister commented that volleyball is not only important for friendship, participation, spirit of sport, and competition between countries but also for the new generation of the countries we represent.

Ambassador of Saudi Arabia H.E. Khalid Hamoud Nasser, State Minister of Sports Ro MORE >>

The welfare state we were used to is changing currently.

The Prime Minister expressed these views (09.10.2023) while addressing the United Pensioners’ Forum held at the public library auditorium.

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, addressing the event, commented as follows –

We consider you respected elders who moved our country forward and handed it over to future generations while protecting it. All of you are highly appreciated for performing your service in various services and fields during your tenures and going through the challenges, and we all, including the government, hold you in great respect.

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හෙළ කලාකෙත අස්වද්දන්නට අනුපමේය මෙහෙවරක් කළ ප්‍රතිභාපූර්ණ කලාකරු ජැක්සන් ඇන්තනී මහතාගේ අභාවය සංවේගයට කරුණකි.

සිනමාව, වේදිකාව, රූපවාහිනිය දිග්විජය කරමින් පරිනත සටහන් තැබූ ඔහු දැයට එක්කළ සංස්කෘතික දායාදයන් බොහෝය. පරිසර, ඉතිහාස, මාධ්‍ය ගවේෂණයේ නවමු ඉසව් සොයාගොස් ඒවා ජනතාවට සමී MORE >>

Malaysia will support Sri Lanka’s application to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. This was stated by Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dato Seri Diraja Dr Zambry Abd Kadir who held discussions with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena at the Temple Trees in Colombo today (October 9).

The Prime Minister stated that Sri Lanka’s entry into RCEP would bolster its economic connectivity within the broader South East Asian region and the Malaysian Minister assured fullest support to Sri Lanka and said, “Sri Lanka belongs to our region.” The Prime Minister affirmed the government’s alignment with the future vision of ASEAN for the Indo-Pacific area, pledging full support for the advancemen MORE >>

විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍රයන් ඔස්සේ දැයක් උදෙසා කැපවීම් කොට ඉසිඹු ලබන ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියන් වෙනුවෙන් වූ දිනය අද වුවද අප ගෙවන සෑම දිනයක්ම එකී මෙහෙවරයෙන් පෝෂිත වූ දිනයන් ය.

ආර්ථික අර්බුදය හමුවේ සමස්තයක්ව විශ්‍රාමික ඔබ ද පීඩාවට පත්ව ඇත. එසේ වුවද ස්ථාවර මාසික විශ්‍රාම වැටුපකට හිමිකම් කියන ඔබ ර� MORE >>

අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ ජාතික විශ්‍රාමික දිනය නිමිති කර ගනිමින් 2023.10.08 දින කැළණියේ පැවැති විශේෂ සෞඛ්‍ය සායන කඳවුරකදී ය.

අදට යෙදෙන ජාතික විශ්‍රාමික දිනය වෙනුවෙන්, රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන ස්වදේශ කටයුතු පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන අමාත්‍යංශයේ, ජාතික විශ්‍රාමි වැටුප් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ MORE >>

Cotton industry can get access to the world of fashion … - Ms. Azusa Kubota, UNDP Resident Representative

The Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said that we need to enact new rules instead of relying on old regulations to get out of the prevailing crisis. He expressed this view while addressing the Sankathana Mandapaya held at Temple Trees on 2023.10.07 to mark the World Cotton Day.

Speaking on this occasion The Prime Minister stated that;

“World Cotton Day is a special day declared by the United Nations. It is declared as a special day because it is useful for the people of the world. We dedicate ourselves to make this day meaningful for the cotton industry.

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රටක අනාගතය ගොඩනැගීමේ ක්‍රියාවලියේ දී වඩාත් ඵලදායක අයුරින් ගුණ ණැන බෙලෙන් යුත් යහපත් අනාගත පුරවැසියෙකු කිරීම සඳහාත්, අනාගත ලෝකයට ගැළපෙන, විශිෂ්ට මානව සම්පතක් රටට දායාද කිරීම සඳහාත් දරුවා මෙහෙයවන්නේ ගුරුවරයා යි.

ඉහළ ගුණාත්මක අධ්‍යාපන අවස්ථා දරුවන් වෙත ළඟාකර දිය හැකි, පරිපාලනය� MORE >>

ආසියානු ක්‍රීඩා උළෙලේදී ලක්මව දිනවූ මීටර් 800 කාන්තා ධාවන ඉසව්වෙ රන් පදක්කම්ලාභී තරුෂි කරුණාරත්න, හෙල්ල විසි කිරීමේ ඉසව්වේ රිදී පදක්කම්ලාභී නදීශා ලක්මාලි ලේකම්ගේ හා 4 x 400 (කාන්තා) සහාය දිවීමේ කණ්ඩායම නියෝජනය කළ දියණිවරුනි, 4 x 400 (පිරිමි) සහාය දිවීමේ කණ්ඩායම නියෝජනය කළෙ පුතුණි, ඔබට අප ගෞරව MORE >>

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said the progress in providing housing, education, health and infrastructure facilities to the upcountry Tamil community is very slow and it needs to be speeded up. Pointing out that expedited hastily.

He said this at the function to launch a new logo of the community to mark the 200th anniversary of the arrival of plantation workers from India to the upcountry in Sri Lanka. The function was held at the Ministry of Water Supply & Estate Infrastructure Development at Battaramulla today (October 5).

He recalled that the leftist leaders Dr N M Perera, Phillip Gunawardena, Colvin R de Silva and Edmond Samarakkody were chased away by the European plantation owners when the attempted MORE >>

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Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, while thanking the Asian Development Bank for the assistance provided to agriculture, rural small and medium sectors and other development projects, urged the regional funding agency to initiate new projects on areas such as renewable energy, digitalization, and public transport systems, especially the railways.

He said this when ADB Country Director Takafumi Kadono called on him at the Prime Minister’s Office in Colombo today (October 3). The Prime Minister thanked the ADB for extending support to Sri Lanka for economic stabilization after the unprecedented economic crisis.

Mr Takafumi Kadono briefed the Prime Minister about the ADB’s mid-term and long-term projec MORE >>

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said that as a solution to the energy crisis prevailing in the country, a particular concern should be taken to convert solar power into electricity.

Addressing the World Habitat Day event held at Sethsiripaye in Battaramulla today (02) organized by the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing under the theme "A safe urban economy" in this year’s World Habitat Day, he further stated that nowadays, there is no any necessity to lay thousands of electric wires and spend millions of money to provide electricity to a colony in a remote area as they can be given power through solar panels.

The world is constantly attempting to acquire basic human rights in human society. Certain MORE >>

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and Indian High Commissioner Gopal Bagley offered floral respects to the Mahathma Gandhi bust at the Temple Trees on October 2, to pay respects on the 154th Birth Anniversary of India’s Father of the Nation. Deputy High Commissioner Sathyanjal Pandey and other diplomats, MP Yadamini Gunawardena and Secretary to the Prime Minister Anura Dissanayake were present on this occasion. MORE >>

Minister of State Janaka Wakkumbura, Members of Parliament Yadamini Gunawardena and Mudita de Soysa also joined the event. MORE >>