Heads of foreign missions nominated
by Manjula Fernando
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Dr. Rohan Perera, PC |
The External Affairs Ministry has nominated the new heads of missions
to the 27 Sri Lankan embassies whose ambassadors were recalled to
depoliticise the foreign service after the new government took office in
January, Foreign Ministry sources said.
The list of nominations have been submitted to the 18- member High
Posts Committee of the Parliament headed by former Prime Minister
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake.
The Sunday Observer learns that former legal advisor to the Foreign
Ministry and diplomat Dr. Rohan Perera, PC will be posted as Sri Lanka’s
next Permanent Representative to the UN in New York. Ambassador
Dr.Palitha Kohona is among those who have been recalled.
Former Foreign Secretary Kshenuka Seneviratne is expected to head the
mission in Bangkok.
Among those recalled last month were the High Commissioner and Deputy
High Comissioner in Australia Retired Admiral Tisara Samarasinghe and
Luxman Hulugalla and Heads of Missions in France Prof.K.Hangawatte,
Japan Retired Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda, Korea Tissa Wijeratne, Italy
Bennet Cooray, Israel Sarath Wijesinghe, Pakistan Retired Air Chief
Marshal Jayalath Weerakkody, Russia Udayanga Weeratunga, South Africa
Sarath Kongahage, Saudi Arabia Hussain Mohamed and Sweden Oshadi
Alahapperuma. |
