Foreign relations of Sri Lanka refers to the diplomatic and commercial relations between Sri Lanka and other countries. Sri Lanka has stressed its principle of "friendship towards all, enmity towards none" in its diplomacy.
Yasushi Akashi is a Japanese senior diplomat and United Nations administrator.
Ceylon competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Six competitors, all men, took part in six events in four sports.
Sri Lanka and the United States established diplomatic relations on 23 October 1948.
Japan–Sri Lanka relations refers to the bilateral relations between the Sri Lanka and Japan.
Cinnamon Gardens is an affluent neighbourhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka located 3 kilometers south-east from Colombo's centre. Cinnamon Gardens is named from the former cinnamon plantation in this area. In the year 1789, there were 289 acres (1.17 km2) of cinnamon trees in the gardens.
Indians in Japan consist of those with Japanese citizenship and those with foreign citizenship.
Sri Lanka–Switzerland relations are the bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and the Switzerland. Diplomatic relations were established in 1956, and mainly encompass economy and cooperation. Sri Lanka has a consulate general in Geneva and Switzerland has an embassy in Colombo.
Sri Lanka made its Paralympic Games début at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, with a single athlete in track and field. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but has never entered the Winter Paralympics.
The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington, D.C. is the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka's diplomatic mission to the United States. It is located at 3025 Whitehaven Street N.W. in Washington, D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood.
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art was one of the oldest contemporary art museums in Japan. The museum was in the Kita-Shinagawa district, in the Shinagawa area of Tokyo.
Hettige Don Karunaratne is a Sri Lankan business economist, academic, author, administrator and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colombo. He is the Chairman of the Governing Council of Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka and the Former Director of Institute of Human Resource Advancement. Karunaratne is a recipient of Foreign Minister's Commendation of the Government of Japan. He is the Former Dean at the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo and the Founding Coordinator of Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program, University of Colombo. He is the Vice President of Sri Lanka Economic Association and the Director of the University of Tokyo Sri Lanka office.
This page lists notable events that took place in the year 2019 in Sri Lanka. The year 2019 had the fewest non-working holidays in the country as most of the public holidays fell on weekends.
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 November 2019. Incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena did not run for a second term. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was the candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and was endorsed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. Sajith Premadasa, son of former president Ranasinghe Premadasa and deputy leader of the United National Party was the candidate of the ruling party.
The 2019 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka were a series of powerful cyberattacks on at least 10 Sri Lankan domestic websites with the public domains of .lk and .com. The cyberattack is speculated to have been conducted on 18 and 19 May 2019, the day following the Vesak festival and amid the persistent temporary social media ban in the country. The website of the Kuwaiti Embassy operating in Sri Lanka was also affected by the cyberattacks. The investigations are currently carried out by Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team along with Sri Lanka Signals Corps.
Sri Lanka competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's eighteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Seven of the nation's previous Olympic appearances were under the name Ceylon.
Julie Jiyoon Chung, birth name as Chung Ji-yoon, is a Korean-American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka since 2022. She previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the United States Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA). Her first overseas assignment was in Guangzhou, China. Chung has later served in several posts in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Colombia and Iraq.
Sri Lanka competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
